💬 "За годы пребывания у власти Путин продемонстрировал собственную версию "дерзновенного преобразования мира": на сегодняшний момент развязанная им против Украины война, если сложить приводимые разными источниками данные о погибших и раненых украинских и российских военных, а также мирных жителях с обеих сторон, унесла или покалечила почти миллион человек. Достижение, которое, скорее, тянет на номинацию "Убийца года".
💬 "За годы пребывания у власти Путин продемонстрировал собственную версию "дерзновенного преобразования мира": на сегодняшний момент развязанная им против Украины война, если сложить приводимые разными источниками данные о погибших и раненых украинских и российских военных, а также мирных жителях с обеих сторон, унесла или покалечила почти миллион человек. Достижение, которое, скорее, тянет на номинацию "Убийца года".
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. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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