На президентских выборах в Грузии победил Михаил Кавелашвили. Он был единственным кандидатом в бюллетени и набрал 224 голоса из 300. Впервые в истории страны лидера выбирала избирательная коллегия.
Ранее действующий президент Саломе Зурабишвили заявляла, что не будет покидать пост после истечения срока полномочий (16 декабря). Она отказывается признавать итоги парламентских выборов и поддерживает протесты.
Накануне же парламент принял закон, который лишает президента госохраны после истечения его полномочий.
На президентских выборах в Грузии победил Михаил Кавелашвили. Он был единственным кандидатом в бюллетени и набрал 224 голоса из 300. Впервые в истории страны лидера выбирала избирательная коллегия.
Ранее действующий президент Саломе Зурабишвили заявляла, что не будет покидать пост после истечения срока полномочий (16 декабря). Она отказывается признавать итоги парламентских выборов и поддерживает протесты.
Накануне же парламент принял закон, который лишает президента госохраны после истечения его полномочий.
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Founder Pavel Durov says tech is meant to set you free "There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said. 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. Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation.
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