The collection of essays provides an analysis of qualitative changes in the confi guration of international relations in the late 2010s – early 2020s. A wide range of factors infl uencing Russian foreign policy is analyzed. These include interactions within the triangle “Russia – China – USA”, the geopolitics of Greater Eurasia, problems of identity and historical memory, “soft power,” and political competition in the cyberspace. Particular attention is paid to the causes and probable consequences of the special military operation in Ukraine, as well as the background of the confl ict and post-confl ict settlement in the Western Balkans region.
The collection of essays provides an analysis of qualitative changes in the confi guration of international relations in the late 2010s – early 2020s. A wide range of factors infl uencing Russian foreign policy is analyzed. These include interactions within the triangle “Russia – China – USA”, the geopolitics of Greater Eurasia, problems of identity and historical memory, “soft power,” and political competition in the cyberspace. Particular attention is paid to the causes and probable consequences of the special military operation in Ukraine, as well as the background of the confl ict and post-confl ict settlement in the Western Balkans region.
"We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. Since January 2022, the SC has received a total of 47 complaints and enquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through Telegram. These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very attractive and risk-free returns within a short span of time. They commonly offer unrealistic returns of as high as 1,000% within 24 hours or even within a few hours. Investors took profits on Friday while they could ahead of the weekend, explained Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research. Saturday and Sunday could easily bring unfortunate news on the war front—and traders would rather be able to sell any recent winnings at Friday’s earlier prices than wait for a potentially lower price at Monday’s open. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations.
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