Путин провел Совет безопасности по отношениям с соседями: Мы сегодня поговорим о развитии отношений на одном из наших важнейших направлений – о развитии отношений с нашими ближайшими соседями и союзниками по Евразэс. Много аспектов, которые постоянно находятся в поле нашего внимания, но есть отдельные темы, которые мы договаривались обсудить именно сегодня. У нас докладчик – Сергей Викторович Лавров.
Путин провел Совет безопасности по отношениям с соседями: Мы сегодня поговорим о развитии отношений на одном из наших важнейших направлений – о развитии отношений с нашими ближайшими соседями и союзниками по Евразэс. Много аспектов, которые постоянно находятся в поле нашего внимания, но есть отдельные темы, которые мы договаривались обсудить именно сегодня. У нас докладчик – Сергей Викторович Лавров.
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. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. 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. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists."
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