Книга петербургского историка Дмитрия Копелева сочетает в себе приёмы культурно-исторического изыскания, детективного расследования и географического путешествия. Все её сюжеты связаны с Петровской эпохой.
Автору обращается к темам военно-морской истории, колониальной политики, к европейским путешествиям, непроясненным и по сей день загадочным страницам петровской дипломатии, а также некоторым непривычным чертам личности Петра, касающихся, например, его отношениям к животным.
Книга петербургского историка Дмитрия Копелева сочетает в себе приёмы культурно-исторического изыскания, детективного расследования и географического путешествия. Все её сюжеты связаны с Петровской эпохой.
Автору обращается к темам военно-морской истории, колониальной политики, к европейским путешествиям, непроясненным и по сей день загадочным страницам петровской дипломатии, а также некоторым непривычным чертам личности Петра, касающихся, например, его отношениям к животным.
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. 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 S&P 500 fell 1.3% to 4,204.36, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.7% to 32,943.33. The Dow posted a fifth straight weekly loss — its longest losing streak since 2019. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 2.2% to 12,843.81. Though all three indexes opened in the green, stocks took a turn after a new report showed U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated more than expected in early March as consumers' inflation expectations soared to the highest since 1981. 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. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender.
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