Ukraine is pursuing unconventional methods to prevent an energy crisis this winter. According to The New York Times, the country has brought in an outdated power plant from Lithuania to help restore the grid, is renting floating power plants from Turkey, and has called for a permanent UN presence at substations to protect them from Russian attacks. However, Ukrainian officials admit that these efforts might not be sufficient.
Ukraine is pursuing unconventional methods to prevent an energy crisis this winter. According to The New York Times, the country has brought in an outdated power plant from Lithuania to help restore the grid, is renting floating power plants from Turkey, and has called for a permanent UN presence at substations to protect them from Russian attacks. However, Ukrainian officials admit that these efforts might not be sufficient.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. 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. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors.
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