Новый вице-спикер Шмидт шокировал аппарат челябинского заксобрания своими запросами. Он потребовал закрепить за собой две служебные машины и оформить постоянный пропуск в здание парламента учителю игры на гитаре, у которого планирует брать уроки. На первую просьбу он получил отказ сразу, что касается второй – в заксобрании взяли паузу на обдумывание.
Новый вице-спикер Шмидт шокировал аппарат челябинского заксобрания своими запросами. Он потребовал закрепить за собой две служебные машины и оформить постоянный пропуск в здание парламента учителю игры на гитаре, у которого планирует брать уроки. На первую просьбу он получил отказ сразу, что касается второй – в заксобрании взяли паузу на обдумывание.
As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early-morning hours of February 24, targeting several key cities with military strikes. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych.
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