Роберт Бёрд, автор книги «Андрей Тарковский: стихии кино», исследовал пересечение русской литературы, кинематографа и интеллектуальной истории. В карточках представлены выдержки из воспоминаний киноведа Наума Ихильевича Клеймана о Бёрде, с которым его связывали многолетние профессиональные и личные отношения. Оригинал текста опубликован в журнале «Киноведческие записки», № 116/117.
Роберт Бёрд, автор книги «Андрей Тарковский: стихии кино», исследовал пересечение русской литературы, кинематографа и интеллектуальной истории. В карточках представлены выдержки из воспоминаний киноведа Наума Ихильевича Клеймана о Бёрде, с которым его связывали многолетние профессиональные и личные отношения. Оригинал текста опубликован в журнале «Киноведческие записки», № 116/117.
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.” "He has to start being more proactive and to find a real solution to this situation, not stay in standby without interfering. It's a very irresponsible position from the owner of Telegram," she said. 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. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback.
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