Эрнест Новинский: Индия - реально самая большая демократия в мире. За федеральные партии голосует только половина избирателей. Эпицентр смещается в регионы. Региональные партии балансируют между альянсами. Сельская Индия консолидировано голосует. Глобализированные избиратели часто считают английский язык родным. Индийские элиты считают себя не просто частью Глобального Юга, а его лидером и выразителем интересов.
Эрнест Новинский: Индия - реально самая большая демократия в мире. За федеральные партии голосует только половина избирателей. Эпицентр смещается в регионы. Региональные партии балансируют между альянсами. Сельская Индия консолидировано голосует. Глобализированные избиратели часто считают английский язык родным. Индийские элиты считают себя не просто частью Глобального Юга, а его лидером и выразителем интересов.
Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early-morning hours of February 24, targeting several key cities with military strikes. 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.
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