Крах привлекательности Европы: в Молдавии и Грузии это стало причиной конфликта
В середине осени прошли выборы президента в Молдавии и парламента в Грузии. Результаты разные, но мнение избирателей показало приоритет суверенитета страны над евроинтеграцией. Британский политолог Ричард Саква уверен, что в 90-е Европа была очень привлекательна и для молдаван, и для грузин. Но с тех пор изменилась сама Европа: ЕС захотел стать оборонительным блоком. И курс на евроинтеграцию стал курсом на конфликт с Россией.
Крах привлекательности Европы: в Молдавии и Грузии это стало причиной конфликта
В середине осени прошли выборы президента в Молдавии и парламента в Грузии. Результаты разные, но мнение избирателей показало приоритет суверенитета страны над евроинтеграцией. Британский политолог Ричард Саква уверен, что в 90-е Европа была очень привлекательна и для молдаван, и для грузин. Но с тех пор изменилась сама Европа: ЕС захотел стать оборонительным блоком. И курс на евроинтеграцию стал курсом на конфликт с Россией.
Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. 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. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices.
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