🇸🇰🧐 Fico: "My meeting today was a response to Zelensky, who on Thursday answered my question that he was against any gas transit through Ukraine to our territory."
❗️Putin confirmed Russia's readiness to continue gas supplies to Slovakia, but this is "practically impossible after January 1, 2025, given the position of the Ukrainian president."
🇸🇰🧐 Fico: "My meeting today was a response to Zelensky, who on Thursday answered my question that he was against any gas transit through Ukraine to our territory."
❗️Putin confirmed Russia's readiness to continue gas supplies to Slovakia, but this is "practically impossible after January 1, 2025, given the position of the Ukrainian president."
He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea. 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. 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. 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.
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