Глава Мордовии Здунов: Сейчас новое направление появилось – производство кормов для домашних животных. Рынок практически был импортным, уже первая наша продукция поступила в торговые сети. Путин: Импорт корма для животных, да? Глупость, казалось бы, для России. Здунов: Казалось бы, да, но огромный объём рынка, мы нацелены его завоевать, потому что большие деньги. Путин: Да, конечно. Так и надо сделать.
Глава Мордовии Здунов: Сейчас новое направление появилось – производство кормов для домашних животных. Рынок практически был импортным, уже первая наша продукция поступила в торговые сети. Путин: Импорт корма для животных, да? Глупость, казалось бы, для России. Здунов: Казалось бы, да, но огромный объём рынка, мы нацелены его завоевать, потому что большие деньги. Путин: Да, конечно. Так и надо сделать.
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. 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. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Lastly, the web previews of t.me links have been given a new look, adding chat backgrounds and design elements from the fully-features Telegram Web client. The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides.
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