Операция «Бархан» (фр. Opération Barkhane) — операция французских вооружённых сил в Мали, Чаде, Буркина-Фасо, Мавритании и Нигере (страны группы G5 Сахель) против исламистских террористических группировок в этих странах. Европейские военные силы также интегрированы в военную операцию. В течение 2018 года французские войска получили подкрепление от Эстонии (77 солдат) и Дании (70 солдат). В начале 2020 года правительства Чехии и Швеции утвердили отправку 60 и 150 спецназовцев в этот регион.
Операция «Бархан» (фр. Opération Barkhane) — операция французских вооружённых сил в Мали, Чаде, Буркина-Фасо, Мавритании и Нигере (страны группы G5 Сахель) против исламистских террористических группировок в этих странах. Европейские военные силы также интегрированы в военную операцию. В течение 2018 года французские войска получили подкрепление от Эстонии (77 солдат) и Дании (70 солдат). В начале 2020 года правительства Чехии и Швеции утвердили отправку 60 и 150 спецназовцев в этот регион.
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. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. 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. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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