Baijiu is the best-selling liquor in the world. Nearly 10 billion liters are sold each year, with China accounting for almost all of it. The second most popular drink is vodka. Only 5 billion liters are sold per year.
Baijiu is the best-selling liquor in the world. Nearly 10 billion liters are sold each year, with China accounting for almost all of it. The second most popular drink is vodka. Only 5 billion liters are sold per year.
In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Recently, Durav wrote on his Telegram channel that users' right to privacy, in light of the war in Ukraine, is "sacred, now more than ever." Official government accounts have also spread fake fact checks. An official Twitter account for the Russia diplomatic mission in Geneva shared a fake debunking video claiming without evidence that "Western and Ukrainian media are creating thousands of fake news on Russia every day." The video, which has amassed almost 30,000 views, offered a "how-to" spot misinformation. In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later.
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