Директор Межъепархиального центра подготовки церковных специалистов Ивановской митрополии иеромонах Серафим (Лопухов) в составе выездной экспертной комиссия по вопросам образования монашествующих в качестве сопредседателя и секретаря посетил Камчатский край для открытия курсов базовой богословской подготовки монашествующих Петропавловской епархии. Подробнее см. на сайте Ивановской митрополии
Директор Межъепархиального центра подготовки церковных специалистов Ивановской митрополии иеромонах Серафим (Лопухов) в составе выездной экспертной комиссия по вопросам образования монашествующих в качестве сопредседателя и секретаря посетил Камчатский край для открытия курсов базовой богословской подготовки монашествующих Петропавловской епархии. Подробнее см. на сайте Ивановской митрополии
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.” 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. "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. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov.
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