Самые знаменитые мифологические чудовища — драконы — всегда вызывали страх и восхищение. Перед вами фундаментальное исследование, охватывающее тысячелетия человеческой истории и множество стран и культур. Происхождение драконов из пустынь Африки; их борьба со слонами в джунглях Южной Азии; их боязнь молнии; морское чудовище Левиафан; семиглавый красный дракон из «Апокалипсиса»; Лох-несское чудовище; дракон в «Беовульфе», который стал прототипом Смауга в «Хоббите» Толкина; драконы в пророчествах волшебника Мерлина; пернатый змей древней Мезоамерики.
Самые знаменитые мифологические чудовища — драконы — всегда вызывали страх и восхищение. Перед вами фундаментальное исследование, охватывающее тысячелетия человеческой истории и множество стран и культур. Происхождение драконов из пустынь Африки; их борьба со слонами в джунглях Южной Азии; их боязнь молнии; морское чудовище Левиафан; семиглавый красный дракон из «Апокалипсиса»; Лох-несское чудовище; дракон в «Беовульфе», который стал прототипом Смауга в «Хоббите» Толкина; драконы в пророчествах волшебника Мерлина; пернатый змей древней Мезоамерики.
Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The S&P 500 fell 1.3% to 4,204.36, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.7% to 32,943.33. The Dow posted a fifth straight weekly loss — its longest losing streak since 2019. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 2.2% to 12,843.81. Though all three indexes opened in the green, stocks took a turn after a new report showed U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated more than expected in early March as consumers' inflation expectations soared to the highest since 1981. But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. "The inflation fire was already hot and now with war-driven inflation added to the mix, it will grow even hotter, setting off a scramble by the world’s central banks to pull back their stimulus earlier than expected," Chris Rupkey, chief economist at FWDBONDS, wrote in an email. "A spike in inflation rates has preceded economic recessions historically and this time prices have soared to levels that once again pose a threat to growth."
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