В Грузии, как и ожидалось ранее, начался сценарий майдана. Пока всё идёт по классической схеме: митинги возле административных зданий, беспорядки с применением булыжников, петард и прочих подручных средств, серьёзное давление со стороны западных "партнёров", формирование параллельных структур власти. Однако официальный Тбилиси настроен решительно: беспредельщиков ждёт жёсткое подавление, а организаторов – посадки. Подробности в эфире программы "Без цензуры" расскажет ведущий Никита Комаров.
В Грузии, как и ожидалось ранее, начался сценарий майдана. Пока всё идёт по классической схеме: митинги возле административных зданий, беспорядки с применением булыжников, петард и прочих подручных средств, серьёзное давление со стороны западных "партнёров", формирование параллельных структур власти. Однако официальный Тбилиси настроен решительно: беспредельщиков ждёт жёсткое подавление, а организаторов – посадки. Подробности в эфире программы "Без цензуры" расскажет ведущий Никита Комаров.
Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." Continuing its crackdown against entities allegedly involved in a front-running scam using messaging app Telegram, Sebi on Thursday carried out search and seizure operations at the premises of eight entities in multiple locations across the country. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.”
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