Коротко о выпуске: В 1453 году пала Византия – турками-османами был захвачен Константинополь. Проливы Босфор и Дарданеллы, соединяющие Чёрное море со Средиземным и с мировым океаном, надолго оказались под контролем Османской империи. Для России вопрос свободного судоходства через проливы стал актуальным после присоединения Крыма и создания Черноморского флота. Два столетия попыток решить проблему проливов породили массу проектов, дипломатических и военных. О необходимости контроля России над проливами неоднократно говорилось в русской публицистике. Но фактически Турция сумела сохранить "ключи" от Средиземного моря и в ХХ веке.
Коротко о выпуске: В 1453 году пала Византия – турками-османами был захвачен Константинополь. Проливы Босфор и Дарданеллы, соединяющие Чёрное море со Средиземным и с мировым океаном, надолго оказались под контролем Османской империи. Для России вопрос свободного судоходства через проливы стал актуальным после присоединения Крыма и создания Черноморского флота. Два столетия попыток решить проблему проливов породили массу проектов, дипломатических и военных. О необходимости контроля России над проливами неоднократно говорилось в русской публицистике. Но фактически Турция сумела сохранить "ключи" от Средиземного моря и в ХХ веке.
Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis." 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. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." 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. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare.
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