Вступивший в должность губернатор Астраханской области Игорь Бабушкин назначил моего бывшего коллегу и товарища, очень воцерквленного человека Андрея Деркача сенатором от правительства региона.
Поздравляю Андрея с назначением, желаю профессиональных успехов на новом месте — полезных для людей и страны законов.
Вступивший в должность губернатор Астраханской области Игорь Бабушкин назначил моего бывшего коллегу и товарища, очень воцерквленного человека Андрея Деркача сенатором от правительства региона.
Поздравляю Андрея с назначением, желаю профессиональных успехов на новом месте — полезных для людей и страны законов.
The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. 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. In December 2021, Sebi officials had conducted a search and seizure operation at the premises of certain persons carrying out similar manipulative activities through Telegram channels. 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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