На российской части границы меня ждал сюрприз. Оказывается, построить навес, который закрывает от снега, ветра и дождя - не так уж и сложно. А еще под навесом есть лавочки, питьевые фонтанчики. В летнее время там видимо даже вентилятор работает.
Ну что же, приближался паспортный контроль на российской границе. Я переживала, что придется сидеть еще 3 часа в комнате для допросов ⤵️
На российской части границы меня ждал сюрприз. Оказывается, построить навес, который закрывает от снега, ветра и дождя - не так уж и сложно. А еще под навесом есть лавочки, питьевые фонтанчики. В летнее время там видимо даже вентилятор работает.
Ну что же, приближался паспортный контроль на российской границе. Я переживала, что придется сидеть еще 3 часа в комнате для допросов ⤵️
At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea. 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. 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.
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