«Меня только что задержали в ереванском аэропорту Звартноц на основании розыска от Азербайджана и Российской Федерации. Потребовали пройти с ними в кабинет. Я отказался. Забрали паспорт. Уже более часа стою перед будками паспортного контроля. Ситуация очень неприятная, нужна поддержка СМИ. Пограничники общаются по армянски, улавливаю лишь слово "арест"»,- написал он.
«Меня только что задержали в ереванском аэропорту Звартноц на основании розыска от Азербайджана и Российской Федерации. Потребовали пройти с ними в кабинет. Я отказался. Забрали паспорт. Уже более часа стою перед будками паспортного контроля. Ситуация очень неприятная, нужна поддержка СМИ. Пограничники общаются по армянски, улавливаю лишь слово "арест"»,- написал он.
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. A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. 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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