16 сентября 2024 г. Генеральный консул России в Эрбиле М.Рубин провел встречу с членом политбюро Патриотического союза Курдистана, главой департамента ПСК по связям с общественностью Д.Расулом. В ходе беседы состоялось обсуждение политической и экономической ситуации в Курдском автономном районе Ирака, а также подготовки выборов в парламент региона.
On September 16, 2024, Maxim Rubin, Consul General of Russia in Erbil, met with Darbaz Kosrat Rasul, Member of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Politburo and Head of PUK Relations Bureau. They discussed the political and economic situation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq including preparations for the parliamentary elections in the KRI.
16 сентября 2024 г. Генеральный консул России в Эрбиле М.Рубин провел встречу с членом политбюро Патриотического союза Курдистана, главой департамента ПСК по связям с общественностью Д.Расулом. В ходе беседы состоялось обсуждение политической и экономической ситуации в Курдском автономном районе Ирака, а также подготовки выборов в парламент региона.
On September 16, 2024, Maxim Rubin, Consul General of Russia in Erbil, met with Darbaz Kosrat Rasul, Member of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Politburo and Head of PUK Relations Bureau. They discussed the political and economic situation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq including preparations for the parliamentary elections in the KRI.
Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. 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.” Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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