Сегодня день рождения (да чего уж – юбилей!) у Марата Саддарова, одного из важнейших российских барменов, который стоял у истоков миксологии. Празднует он в Borough, но перед походом туда советую почитать наше старое интервью с Маратом и его соратником Дмитрием Журавлевым.
PS Заведение «Марат и Журавль», к открытию которого выходил текст, просуществовало совсем недолго, но интервью остается актуальным и сейчас.
Сегодня день рождения (да чего уж – юбилей!) у Марата Саддарова, одного из важнейших российских барменов, который стоял у истоков миксологии. Празднует он в Borough, но перед походом туда советую почитать наше старое интервью с Маратом и его соратником Дмитрием Журавлевым.
PS Заведение «Марат и Журавль», к открытию которого выходил текст, просуществовало совсем недолго, но интервью остается актуальным и сейчас.
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching.
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