Feeling overly aware of one's appearance, behavior, or actions in social situations, often resulting in discomfort or embarrassment.
- Feeling self-conscious, she constantly adjusted her hair and clothes in front of the mirror. - He became self-conscious when all eyes turned to him during the presentation. - She felt self-conscious about her accent when speaking in public.
Feeling overly aware of one's appearance, behavior, or actions in social situations, often resulting in discomfort or embarrassment.
- Feeling self-conscious, she constantly adjusted her hair and clothes in front of the mirror. - He became self-conscious when all eyes turned to him during the presentation. - She felt self-conscious about her accent when speaking in public.
After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. The news also helped traders look past another report showing decades-high inflation and shake off some of the volatility from recent sessions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' February Consumer Price Index (CPI) this week showed another surge in prices even before Russia escalated its attacks in Ukraine. The headline CPI — soaring 7.9% over last year — underscored the sticky inflationary pressures reverberating across the U.S. economy, with everything from groceries to rents and airline fares getting more expensive for everyday consumers. 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. Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis." In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later.
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