Сегодня день памяти жертв одного из ставших гласным преступлений саддамовского режима - 35 лет назад иракские ВВС сбросили на курдский город Халабджа гремучую смесь зарина, табуна, иприта и горчичного газа. Этой бомбардировкой было истреблено по разным данным до 5 тыс. собственных нелояльных граждан. Шел последний, 8й, год затянувшейся ирано-иракской войны, которая задумывалась как маленькая/победоносная. Не последний пример того, как неудача на фронте развязывает диктаторам руки для насилия против своего же населения. И стоит добавить сюда десятки тысяч полегших солдат на полях бессмысленной бойни.
Сегодня день памяти жертв одного из ставших гласным преступлений саддамовского режима - 35 лет назад иракские ВВС сбросили на курдский город Халабджа гремучую смесь зарина, табуна, иприта и горчичного газа. Этой бомбардировкой было истреблено по разным данным до 5 тыс. собственных нелояльных граждан. Шел последний, 8й, год затянувшейся ирано-иракской войны, которая задумывалась как маленькая/победоносная. Не последний пример того, как неудача на фронте развязывает диктаторам руки для насилия против своего же населения. И стоит добавить сюда десятки тысяч полегших солдат на полях бессмысленной бойни.
Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis." 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. Stocks closed in the red Friday as investors weighed upbeat remarks from Russian President Vladimir Putin about diplomatic discussions with Ukraine against a weaker-than-expected print on U.S. consumer sentiment. Since January 2022, the SC has received a total of 47 complaints and enquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through Telegram. These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very attractive and risk-free returns within a short span of time. They commonly offer unrealistic returns of as high as 1,000% within 24 hours or even within a few hours. 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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