Когда-то здесь жили люди. Много людей. В каждой комнате по семье, а то и по две. Со всего Советского Союза ехали работяги: строители, металлурги, электрики, повара, учителя и инженеры. Ехали за деньгами, за северным стажем. Находились и те, кто ехал за особой северной романтикой, которая всегда была сопряжена с миссией первооткрывателей. Первая школа, первый собственный хлеб, первый огневой никель и первая электролитная медь — это было время первых, время покорителей Мончетундры...
Когда-то здесь жили люди. Много людей. В каждой комнате по семье, а то и по две. Со всего Советского Союза ехали работяги: строители, металлурги, электрики, повара, учителя и инженеры. Ехали за деньгами, за северным стажем. Находились и те, кто ехал за особой северной романтикой, которая всегда была сопряжена с миссией первооткрывателей. Первая школа, первый собственный хлеб, первый огневой никель и первая электролитная медь — это было время первых, время покорителей Мончетундры...
Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care. 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. And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. 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.
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