"Перед приходом российских войск, примерно за две недели, пришли четверо военных украинских. Я думал, они паспорта проверять. Они спросили: "Кто ты?" Сказал, что военнослужащий на пенсии. Один против четырех. Меня избили, выбили два зуба."
"Перед приходом российских войск, примерно за две недели, пришли четверо военных украинских. Я думал, они паспорта проверять. Они спросили: "Кто ты?" Сказал, что военнослужащий на пенсии. Один против четырех. Меня избили, выбили два зуба."
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. "Like the bombing of the maternity ward in Mariupol," he said, "Even before it hits the news, you see the videos on the Telegram channels." 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. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so.
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