🔸Николай Харитонов, глава комитета Госдумы по развитию Дальнего Востока и Арктики, экс-кандидат в президенты РФ КПРФ):
💬"Их роскошь, их "Лексусы" - что об этом говорить, обойдемся. Простой россиянин и в голове этого не держит. Нас этим не напугать. У нас раньше автомобилестроение было одно из самых передовых. Были машины "Победа", "Волга" и многие другие".
🔸Николай Харитонов, глава комитета Госдумы по развитию Дальнего Востока и Арктики, экс-кандидат в президенты РФ КПРФ):
💬"Их роскошь, их "Лексусы" - что об этом говорить, обойдемся. Простой россиянин и в голове этого не держит. Нас этим не напугать. У нас раньше автомобилестроение было одно из самых передовых. Были машины "Победа", "Волга" и многие другие".
Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. 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. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 230 points, or 0.7%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3% and 2.2%, respectively. All three indexes began the day with gains before selling off.
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