В России скоро может не остаться депутатов в статусе иностранных агентов. Пока что их двое — это коммунист Виктор Воробьев (признан иностранным агентом) из Госсовета (парламента) Коми и «яблочница» Дарья Беседина (признана иностранным агентом) из Мосгордумы. Как стало известно «Ъ», Минюст пытается привлечь обоих к административной ответственности за отсутствие «иноагентской» маркировки в депутатских запросах, причем сразу по нескольким эпизодам.
В случае успеха это станет поводом для возбуждения уголовного дела и последующего прекращения их полномочий.
В России скоро может не остаться депутатов в статусе иностранных агентов. Пока что их двое — это коммунист Виктор Воробьев (признан иностранным агентом) из Госсовета (парламента) Коми и «яблочница» Дарья Беседина (признана иностранным агентом) из Мосгордумы. Как стало известно «Ъ», Минюст пытается привлечь обоих к административной ответственности за отсутствие «иноагентской» маркировки в депутатских запросах, причем сразу по нескольким эпизодам.
В случае успеха это станет поводом для возбуждения уголовного дела и последующего прекращения их полномочий.
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. 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. The regulator said it had received information that messages containing stock tips and other investment advice with respect to selected listed companies are being widely circulated through websites and social media platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Groups are also not fully encrypted, end-to-end. This includes private groups. Private groups cannot be seen by other Telegram users, but Telegram itself can see the groups and all of the communications that you have in them. All of the same risks and warnings about channels can be applied to groups. 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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