— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The European Union has adopted a 15th sanctions package against Russia, adding 52 vessels from the shadow fleet attempting to bypass Western restrictions on oil, arms, and grain
This brings the total to 79 listed vessels. The new package also includes sanctions on 84 individuals and entities, including seven from China.
— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: The European Union has adopted a 15th sanctions package against Russia, adding 52 vessels from the shadow fleet attempting to bypass Western restrictions on oil, arms, and grain
This brings the total to 79 listed vessels. The new package also includes sanctions on 84 individuals and entities, including seven from China.
Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. The picture was mixed overseas. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 1.6%, under pressure from U.S. regulatory scrutiny on New York-listed Chinese companies. Stocks were more buoyant in Europe, where Frankfurt’s DAX surged 1.4%. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. These administrators had built substantial positions in these scrips prior to the circulation of recommendations and offloaded their positions subsequent to rise in price of these scrips, making significant profits at the expense of unsuspecting investors, Sebi noted.
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