Эрнест Новинский: Индия - реально самая большая демократия в мире. За федеральные партии голосует только половина избирателей. Эпицентр смещается в регионы. Региональные партии балансируют между альянсами. Сельская Индия консолидировано голосует. Глобализированные избиратели часто считают английский язык родным. Индийские элиты считают себя не просто частью Глобального Юга, а его лидером и выразителем интересов.
Эрнест Новинский: Индия - реально самая большая демократия в мире. За федеральные партии голосует только половина избирателей. Эпицентр смещается в регионы. Региональные партии балансируют между альянсами. Сельская Индия консолидировано голосует. Глобализированные избиратели часто считают английский язык родным. Индийские элиты считают себя не просто частью Глобального Юга, а его лидером и выразителем интересов.
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 last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides. Official government accounts have also spread fake fact checks. An official Twitter account for the Russia diplomatic mission in Geneva shared a fake debunking video claiming without evidence that "Western and Ukrainian media are creating thousands of fake news on Russia every day." The video, which has amassed almost 30,000 views, offered a "how-to" spot misinformation. 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." After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users.
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