"Ах, были бы у меня деньги, купил бы я у Левитана его "Деревню" - серенькую, жалконькую, затерянную, безобразную, но такой от нее веет невыразимой прелестью, что оторваться нельзя: все бы на нее смотрел да смотрел. До такой изумительной простоты и ясности мотива, до которых дошел в последнее время Левитан, никто не доходил до него, да не знаю, дойдет ли кто и после». ⠀ Антон Павлович Чехов
"Ах, были бы у меня деньги, купил бы я у Левитана его "Деревню" - серенькую, жалконькую, затерянную, безобразную, но такой от нее веет невыразимой прелестью, что оторваться нельзя: все бы на нее смотрел да смотрел. До такой изумительной простоты и ясности мотива, до которых дошел в последнее время Левитан, никто не доходил до него, да не знаю, дойдет ли кто и после». ⠀ Антон Павлович Чехов
Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. That hurt tech stocks. For the past few weeks, the 10-year yield has traded between 1.72% and 2%, as traders moved into the bond for safety when Russia headlines were ugly—and out of it when headlines improved. Now, the yield is touching its pandemic-era high. If the yield breaks above that level, that could signal that it’s on a sustainable path higher. Higher long-dated bond yields make future profits less valuable—and many tech companies are valued on the basis of profits forecast for many years in the future. Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images 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. 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.
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