Спикер Совета Федерации Валентина Матвиенко сегодня в Дагестане. Ждать каких-то кардинальных решений по развитию республики или ярких заявлений не стоит, но...
Ее сегодняшняя личная встреча с Сергеем Меликовым в Дагестане должна снизить накал вокруг главы республики в части обсуждения нестабильности его положения на фоне широко тиражируемой и обсуждаемой информации о его скорой отставке.
Спикер Совета Федерации Валентина Матвиенко сегодня в Дагестане. Ждать каких-то кардинальных решений по развитию республики или ярких заявлений не стоит, но...
Ее сегодняшняя личная встреча с Сергеем Меликовым в Дагестане должна снизить накал вокруг главы республики в части обсуждения нестабильности его положения на фоне широко тиражируемой и обсуждаемой информации о его скорой отставке.
At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation.
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