Путин – о нападении в Брянской области: Сегодня совершили очередной террористический акт, проникли на приграничную территорию и открыли огонь по гражданским лицам. Видели, что это гражданская машина, видели, что там сидят гражданские лица и дети. «Нива» обыкновенная. Открыли огонь по ним. Вот именно такие люди и ставили и ставили перед собой задачу лишить нас исторической памяти, лишить нас своей истории, своих традиций и языка.
Путин – о нападении в Брянской области: Сегодня совершили очередной террористический акт, проникли на приграничную территорию и открыли огонь по гражданским лицам. Видели, что это гражданская машина, видели, что там сидят гражданские лица и дети. «Нива» обыкновенная. Открыли огонь по ним. Вот именно такие люди и ставили и ставили перед собой задачу лишить нас исторической памяти, лишить нас своей истории, своих традиций и языка.
WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK. 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. 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. 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.
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