📸Площадь ан-Наджме/эн-Нежме в центре Бейрута, 1949 год.
В сердце площади – Башня аль-Абеда с часами. Её построили в 1933 году на деньги ливанского эмигранта по имени Мишель аль-Абед, который жил в Мексике. Башня стоит напротив входа в парламент (вне кадра слева).
Название площади по-арабски значит «звезда». Связано это, по всей видимости, с тем, что от неё, как лучи, расходятся шесть улиц.
📸Площадь ан-Наджме/эн-Нежме в центре Бейрута, 1949 год.
В сердце площади – Башня аль-Абеда с часами. Её построили в 1933 году на деньги ливанского эмигранта по имени Мишель аль-Абед, который жил в Мексике. Башня стоит напротив входа в парламент (вне кадра слева).
Название площади по-арабски значит «звезда». Связано это, по всей видимости, с тем, что от неё, как лучи, расходятся шесть улиц.
For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. 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. 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. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said.
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