Любите фигурное катание? Мы — очень 🤩! В этом виде спорта Россия подарила миру целую плеяду блистательных чемпионов. И неудивительно: еще в конце XIX века именно Санкт-Петербург стал одной из мировых столиц фигурного катания, приняв первые международные соревнования.
Любите фигурное катание? Мы — очень 🤩! В этом виде спорта Россия подарила миру целую плеяду блистательных чемпионов. И неудивительно: еще в конце XIX века именно Санкт-Петербург стал одной из мировых столиц фигурного катания, приняв первые международные соревнования.
As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. 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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