Just the day before yesterday, Hama was captured, and the city's traffic police are already operating normally.
The rebels are making a significant effort to show that life in Hama has returned to normal in the areas they have captured / liberated.
For the same reason, they announced that foreign consulates and embassies can continue operating without interference.
They reiterated this today, even after today's unusual incident involving UN forces (the issued an official statement declaring that international institutions must not be harmed - AA).
It is important for them to show that they can create a "new and improved Syria" that functions like any other state, in contrast to the corrupt and totalitarian state governed by the Ba'ath Party over the last 61 years, 54 of which were under the rule of the Assad family (first Hafez al-Assad, and later his son Bashar).
Just the day before yesterday, Hama was captured, and the city's traffic police are already operating normally.
The rebels are making a significant effort to show that life in Hama has returned to normal in the areas they have captured / liberated.
For the same reason, they announced that foreign consulates and embassies can continue operating without interference.
They reiterated this today, even after today's unusual incident involving UN forces (the issued an official statement declaring that international institutions must not be harmed - AA).
It is important for them to show that they can create a "new and improved Syria" that functions like any other state, in contrast to the corrupt and totalitarian state governed by the Ba'ath Party over the last 61 years, 54 of which were under the rule of the Assad family (first Hafez al-Assad, and later his son Bashar).
This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields.
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