В Грузии проходят первые в истории страны выборы, когда президента выбирают члены специальной комиссии, а не народ. В ней подавляющее большинство представителей правящей партии.
Единственный кандидат — депутат от «Грузинской мечты» и бывший футболист Михаил Кавелашвили. У него даже нет высшего образования.
В Грузии проходят первые в истории страны выборы, когда президента выбирают члены специальной комиссии, а не народ. В ней подавляющее большинство представителей правящей партии.
Единственный кандидат — депутат от «Грузинской мечты» и бывший футболист Михаил Кавелашвили. У него даже нет высшего образования.
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. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. The original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels. 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. 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.
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