Русский композитор Георгий Свиридов Из записной тетради, 1991 г.:
«Я устал от беспочвенных воплей и сетований по поводу «нецивилизованности» России, нецивилизованности русских, главным образом. Странно слышать, когда так говорят соотечественники Лобачевского, Менделеева, Гоголя, Лермонтова, Тютчева, Есенина, Достоевского, Чайковского. Правда, я говорю о культуре, а не о цивилизации, о «Слове о полку Игореве», а не о позолоченном унитазе.»
Русский композитор Георгий Свиридов Из записной тетради, 1991 г.:
«Я устал от беспочвенных воплей и сетований по поводу «нецивилизованности» России, нецивилизованности русских, главным образом. Странно слышать, когда так говорят соотечественники Лобачевского, Менделеева, Гоголя, Лермонтова, Тютчева, Есенина, Достоевского, Чайковского. Правда, я говорю о культуре, а не о цивилизации, о «Слове о полку Игореве», а не о позолоченном унитазе.»
Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images 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. 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.” "This time we received the coordinates of enemy vehicles marked 'V' in Kyiv region," it added. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices.
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