Силовики готовят новые аресты после задержания свердловского экс-министра ЖКХ Смирнова. Говорят, в его коррупционном уголовном деле будет много эпизодов и фигурантов. «И мэры, и коммерческие структуры, некоторые члены правительства. Судьба многих из них сейчас решается в Москве», - говорит близкий к следствию источник. По его предположению, «это будет крупнейший в истории Свердловской области коррупционный скандал».
Силовики готовят новые аресты после задержания свердловского экс-министра ЖКХ Смирнова. Говорят, в его коррупционном уголовном деле будет много эпизодов и фигурантов. «И мэры, и коммерческие структуры, некоторые члены правительства. Судьба многих из них сейчас решается в Москве», - говорит близкий к следствию источник. По его предположению, «это будет крупнейший в истории Свердловской области коррупционный скандал».
Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. "Russians are really disconnected from the reality of what happening to their country," Andrey said. "So Telegram has become essential for understanding what's going on to the Russian-speaking world."
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