"Боже, как я свою родину люблю со всеми ее недостатками! Ближе и дороже она мне, чем многое, и ежедневно славлю Творца, что нас оставил здесь и не отослал дальше. Верь народу, он силен и молод, как воск в руках. Плохие руки схватили, - и тьма и анархия царствует; но грядет Царь славы и спасет, подкрепит, умудрит сокрушенный, обманутый народ."
Из письма Императрицы Александры Феодоровны А. А. Вырубовой, 13 (26) марта 1918 года. Тобольск.
"Боже, как я свою родину люблю со всеми ее недостатками! Ближе и дороже она мне, чем многое, и ежедневно славлю Творца, что нас оставил здесь и не отослал дальше. Верь народу, он силен и молод, как воск в руках. Плохие руки схватили, - и тьма и анархия царствует; но грядет Царь славы и спасет, подкрепит, умудрит сокрушенный, обманутый народ."
Из письма Императрицы Александры Феодоровны А. А. Вырубовой, 13 (26) марта 1918 года. Тобольск.
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.” 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. NEWS Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
from jp
