Генеральный директор Агентства политических и экономических коммуникаций (АПЭК) Дмитрий Орлов: Весенняя ротация губернаторов по-прежнему вероятна. Ее возможный формат можно обозначить как «небольшая волна»: не более трех-пяти решений. Вероятность отставок по январскому прогнозу АПЭК: Коновалов, Клычков, Усс - выше средней; Николаев (Якутия), Копин, Бурков, Паслер - средняя; Воскресенский, Калиматов, Хасиков, Уйба, Комарова, Ситников, Артамонов - ниже средней. Отставка Копина уже состоялась.
Генеральный директор Агентства политических и экономических коммуникаций (АПЭК) Дмитрий Орлов: Весенняя ротация губернаторов по-прежнему вероятна. Ее возможный формат можно обозначить как «небольшая волна»: не более трех-пяти решений. Вероятность отставок по январскому прогнозу АПЭК: Коновалов, Клычков, Усс - выше средней; Николаев (Якутия), Копин, Бурков, Паслер - средняя; Воскресенский, Калиматов, Хасиков, Уйба, Комарова, Ситников, Артамонов - ниже средней. Отставка Копина уже состоялась.
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. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals. 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. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram.
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