"Philosophy," said the caretaker. "Here I am a caretaker, you know. But in my home country I was a great thinker."
He turned and blew the smoke away from me.
"That's the good thing about being an immigrant," he said. "You can always tell people what you were in your home country."
"But you're pulling their legs?" I said.
"Never," he said. "Well, actually, in my home country I was one of the country's greatest leg-pullers. I won a competition. The National Leg-Pulling Championship."
"Philosophy," said the caretaker. "Here I am a caretaker, you know. But in my home country I was a great thinker."
He turned and blew the smoke away from me.
"That's the good thing about being an immigrant," he said. "You can always tell people what you were in your home country."
"But you're pulling their legs?" I said.
"Never," he said. "Well, actually, in my home country I was one of the country's greatest leg-pullers. I won a competition. The National Leg-Pulling Championship."
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. In this regard, Sebi collaborated with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to reduce the vulnerability of the securities market to manipulation through misuse of mass communication medium like bulk SMS. Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. 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.
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