Эрнест Новинский: Индия - реально самая большая демократия в мире. За федеральные партии голосует только половина избирателей. Эпицентр смещается в регионы. Региональные партии балансируют между альянсами. Сельская Индия консолидировано голосует. Глобализированные избиратели часто считают английский язык родным. Индийские элиты считают себя не просто частью Глобального Юга, а его лидером и выразителем интересов.
Эрнест Новинский: Индия - реально самая большая демократия в мире. За федеральные партии голосует только половина избирателей. Эпицентр смещается в регионы. Региональные партии балансируют между альянсами. Сельская Индия консолидировано голосует. Глобализированные избиратели часто считают английский язык родным. Индийские элиты считают себя не просто частью Глобального Юга, а его лидером и выразителем интересов.
In December 2021, Sebi officials had conducted a search and seizure operation at the premises of certain persons carrying out similar manipulative activities through Telegram channels. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts.
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