«Назло рекордам». 27 декабря звонит сервис-менеджер: «Пал Валерич, вы недавно начали к нам ходить, как вам у нас? Все хорошо, есть пожелания?». Говорю: «Верните кадушку с ковшиком в сауну! У женщин есть, у нас, старожилы говорят, забрали». Обещал выяснить. Вчера был, кадушки нет. Видимо не успел. Плавать вчера не получилось. У бабуль была аквааэробика и на дорожках было тесновато. Надо подгадывать график.
«Назло рекордам». 27 декабря звонит сервис-менеджер: «Пал Валерич, вы недавно начали к нам ходить, как вам у нас? Все хорошо, есть пожелания?». Говорю: «Верните кадушку с ковшиком в сауну! У женщин есть, у нас, старожилы говорят, забрали». Обещал выяснить. Вчера был, кадушки нет. Видимо не успел. Плавать вчера не получилось. У бабуль была аквааэробика и на дорожках было тесновато. Надо подгадывать график.
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.” At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. 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. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country.
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