В челябинский пункт отбора добровольцев на военную службу ежедневно приходят десятки человек. У одних нет военного опыта, другие проходили испытания в горячих точках в прошлом, третьи заключают контракт во второй раз. Всех их объединяет желание защищать Родину на передовой.
— Пришла моя очередь защищать свою страну, дом и семью от последователей нацистов, иначе они придут и к нам, — говорит один из контрактников по имени Ринат.
В челябинский пункт отбора добровольцев на военную службу ежедневно приходят десятки человек. У одних нет военного опыта, другие проходили испытания в горячих точках в прошлом, третьи заключают контракт во второй раз. Всех их объединяет желание защищать Родину на передовой.
— Пришла моя очередь защищать свою страну, дом и семью от последователей нацистов, иначе они придут и к нам, — говорит один из контрактников по имени Ринат.
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. 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. 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. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war.
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