🔹 Refuse (verb) = Say "no" to something offered or requested (отказываться). 🔹 Decline (verb) = Politely refuse or reduce in value/quantity (вежливо отказываться). 🔹 Reject (verb) = Dismiss something as not good enough or suitable (отвергать). 🔹 Deny (verb) = State something is not true or refuse to admit something (отрицать, отказать в доступе).
🎯Examples:
- He refused to answer the question during the interview. - I had to decline the invitation because of a prior commitment. - The company rejected the candidate’s application due to lack of experience. - She denied stealing the documents, insisting she was innocent. - He refused to give up, no matter the obstacles. - Sales have declined slightly this quarter compared to the last one. - The team rejected the new proposal, saying it lacked key details. - The suspect denied all allegations during the interrogation.
🔹 Refuse (verb) = Say "no" to something offered or requested (отказываться). 🔹 Decline (verb) = Politely refuse or reduce in value/quantity (вежливо отказываться). 🔹 Reject (verb) = Dismiss something as not good enough or suitable (отвергать). 🔹 Deny (verb) = State something is not true or refuse to admit something (отрицать, отказать в доступе).
🎯Examples:
- He refused to answer the question during the interview. - I had to decline the invitation because of a prior commitment. - The company rejected the candidate’s application due to lack of experience. - She denied stealing the documents, insisting she was innocent. - He refused to give up, no matter the obstacles. - Sales have declined slightly this quarter compared to the last one. - The team rejected the new proposal, saying it lacked key details. - The suspect denied all allegations during the interrogation.
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.” This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. And while money initially moved into stocks in the morning, capital moved out of safe-haven assets. The price of the 10-year Treasury note fell Friday, sending its yield up to 2% from a March closing low of 1.73%. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. Such instructions could actually endanger people — citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts.
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