20 декабря 1917 Совет народных комиссаров РСФСР издал Декрет об образовании Всероссийской Чрезвычайной Комиссии по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем при Совете народных комиссаров РСФСР (ВЧК при СНК РСФСР).
ВЧК и ее многочисленные правопреемники вне зависимости от названия были страшным и непримиримым врагом всякой антисоветской сволочи, а контрразведывательные операции "Трест" и "Синдикат-2" по ликвидации подпольных антисоветских организаций, ликвидация атамана Дутова, похищение генералов Миллера и Кутепова вошли во всевозможные учебные пособия для будущих поколений работников государственной безопасности.
20 декабря 1917 Совет народных комиссаров РСФСР издал Декрет об образовании Всероссийской Чрезвычайной Комиссии по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем при Совете народных комиссаров РСФСР (ВЧК при СНК РСФСР).
ВЧК и ее многочисленные правопреемники вне зависимости от названия были страшным и непримиримым врагом всякой антисоветской сволочи, а контрразведывательные операции "Трест" и "Синдикат-2" по ликвидации подпольных антисоветских организаций, ликвидация атамана Дутова, похищение генералов Миллера и Кутепова вошли во всевозможные учебные пособия для будущих поколений работников государственной безопасности.
After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. Markets continued to grapple with the economic and corporate earnings implications relating to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “We have a ton of uncertainty right now,” said Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at Hightower Advisors. “We’re dealing with a war, we’re dealing with inflation. We don’t know what it means to earnings.” Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. 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. 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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