🤵♂️ Политиком года признали Владимира Путина — Президент лидирует в этом рейтинге с момента начала измерений в 2006 г. (50%) 🥈Михаил Мишустин, председатель Правительства России (18%) 🥉Сергей Лавров, министр иностранных дел (14%)
🏟 Первое место в рейтинге спортсменов ушедшего года разделили Роман Костомаров и Александр Овечкин (по 3%). Другие спортсмены не набрали более 1%.
🖋Писателем года россияне пятый год подряд признают Захара Прилепина (4%). Большинство (77%) затруднились с ответом на этот вопрос, ещё 5% сказали, что таких писателей нет.
🤵♂️ Политиком года признали Владимира Путина — Президент лидирует в этом рейтинге с момента начала измерений в 2006 г. (50%) 🥈Михаил Мишустин, председатель Правительства России (18%) 🥉Сергей Лавров, министр иностранных дел (14%)
🏟 Первое место в рейтинге спортсменов ушедшего года разделили Роман Костомаров и Александр Овечкин (по 3%). Другие спортсмены не набрали более 1%.
🖋Писателем года россияне пятый год подряд признают Захара Прилепина (4%). Большинство (77%) затруднились с ответом на этот вопрос, ещё 5% сказали, что таких писателей нет.
That hurt tech stocks. For the past few weeks, the 10-year yield has traded between 1.72% and 2%, as traders moved into the bond for safety when Russia headlines were ugly—and out of it when headlines improved. Now, the yield is touching its pandemic-era high. If the yield breaks above that level, that could signal that it’s on a sustainable path higher. Higher long-dated bond yields make future profits less valuable—and many tech companies are valued on the basis of profits forecast for many years in the future. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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