🇲🇱 Сегодня рано утром боевиками ДНИМ* одновременно совершено два нападения в Бамако (столица Мали). По сообщениям, атакована жандармерия в районе Фаладие и военный лагерь Сену рядом с международным аэропортом. Генштаб ВС Мали сообщает, что сейчас обстановка стабильная, происходят поиски и аресты террористов. Очевидцы говорят, что были слышны выстрелы из автоматов и пулемётов, а также прилёты от миномётов.
🇲🇱 Сегодня рано утром боевиками ДНИМ* одновременно совершено два нападения в Бамако (столица Мали). По сообщениям, атакована жандармерия в районе Фаладие и военный лагерь Сену рядом с международным аэропортом. Генштаб ВС Мали сообщает, что сейчас обстановка стабильная, происходят поиски и аресты террористов. Очевидцы говорят, что были слышны выстрелы из автоматов и пулемётов, а также прилёты от миномётов.
The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. 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. 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. 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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