— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The European Union has adopted a 15th sanctions package against Russia, adding 52 vessels from the shadow fleet attempting to bypass Western restrictions on oil, arms, and grain
This brings the total to 79 listed vessels. The new package also includes sanctions on 84 individuals and entities, including seven from China.
— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The European Union has adopted a 15th sanctions package against Russia, adding 52 vessels from the shadow fleet attempting to bypass Western restrictions on oil, arms, and grain
This brings the total to 79 listed vessels. The new package also includes sanctions on 84 individuals and entities, including seven from China.
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.” Founder Pavel Durov says tech is meant to set you free Crude oil prices edged higher after tumbling on Thursday, when U.S. West Texas intermediate slid back below $110 per barrel after topping as much as $130 a barrel in recent sessions. Still, gas prices at the pump rose to fresh highs. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. "We're seeing really dramatic moves, and it's all really tied to Ukraine right now, and in a secondary way, in terms of interest rates," Octavio Marenzi, CEO of Opimas, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. "This war in Ukraine is going to give the Fed the ammunition, the cover that it needs, to not raise interest rates too quickly. And I think Jay Powell is a very tepid sort of inflation fighter and he's not going to do as much as he needs to do to get that under control. And this seems like an excuse to kick the can further down the road still and not do too much too soon."
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