❕Евросоюз утвердил продление антироссийских санкций еще на полгода
Постановление опубликовано в официальном журнале ЕС.
Из черного списка были исключены погибший замгубернатора Херсонской области Кирилл Стремоусов, умершие депутат Госдумы Николай Петрунин и главный редактор «Комсомольской правды» Николай Сунгоркин.
Ранее ЕС продлил антироссийские санкции, связанные с изменением в 2022 году статуса ДНР, ЛНР, Херсонской и Запорожской областей до 24 февраля 2024 года.
❕Евросоюз утвердил продление антироссийских санкций еще на полгода
Постановление опубликовано в официальном журнале ЕС.
Из черного списка были исключены погибший замгубернатора Херсонской области Кирилл Стремоусов, умершие депутат Госдумы Николай Петрунин и главный редактор «Комсомольской правды» Николай Сунгоркин.
Ранее ЕС продлил антироссийские санкции, связанные с изменением в 2022 году статуса ДНР, ЛНР, Херсонской и Запорожской областей до 24 февраля 2024 года.
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. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights.
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