🇺🇸🇬🇪 США ввели санкции против основателя "Грузинской мечты" Бидзины Иванишвили
Госсекретарь США Энтони Блинкен пояснил, что основатель правящей партии Грузии "подрывает демократическое и евро-атлантическое будущее Грузии в пользу Российской Федерации".
Иванишвили — самый богатый гражданин Грузии. Согласно Forbes на 2024 год, занимает 600-е место среди самых богатых людей мира с состоянием в 4,9 млрд долларов. Bloomberg оценивает его состояние в 7,3 млрд долларов.
🇺🇸🇬🇪 США ввели санкции против основателя "Грузинской мечты" Бидзины Иванишвили
Госсекретарь США Энтони Блинкен пояснил, что основатель правящей партии Грузии "подрывает демократическое и евро-атлантическое будущее Грузии в пользу Российской Федерации".
Иванишвили — самый богатый гражданин Грузии. Согласно Forbes на 2024 год, занимает 600-е место среди самых богатых людей мира с состоянием в 4,9 млрд долларов. Bloomberg оценивает его состояние в 7,3 млрд долларов.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early-morning hours of February 24, targeting several key cities with military strikes. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Also in the latest update is the ability for users to create a unique @username from the Settings page, providing others with an easy way to contact them via Search or their t.me/username link without sharing their phone number.
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