🇷🇺 Chaos unfolds in Russia: A man sets fire to a post office in Leningrad Oblast, while a series of explosions rock Moscow and St. Petersburg as unknown individuals launch fireworks and firecrackers in post offices and banks. Several pensioners have been detained, with Russian media alleging "involvement of Ukrainian call centers".
🇷🇺 Chaos unfolds in Russia: A man sets fire to a post office in Leningrad Oblast, while a series of explosions rock Moscow and St. Petersburg as unknown individuals launch fireworks and firecrackers in post offices and banks. Several pensioners have been detained, with Russian media alleging "involvement of Ukrainian call centers".
In the past, it was noticed that through bulk SMSes, investors were induced to invest in or purchase the stocks of certain listed companies. The S&P 500 fell 1.3% to 4,204.36, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.7% to 32,943.33. The Dow posted a fifth straight weekly loss — its longest losing streak since 2019. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 2.2% to 12,843.81. Though all three indexes opened in the green, stocks took a turn after a new report showed U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated more than expected in early March as consumers' inflation expectations soared to the highest since 1981. Perpetrators of these scams will create a public group on Telegram to promote these investment packages that are usually accompanied by fake testimonies and sometimes advertised as being Shariah-compliant. Interested investors will be asked to directly message the representatives to begin investing in the various investment packages offered. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup.
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