В этом месяце африканские государства отмечают 400-летие трансатлантической работорговли. С 1510 г. по конец XIX в. из Западной и Центральной Африки в Новый Свет было вывезено около 15 млн человек. Чернокожие рабы из народов йоруба, игбо, конго, фон, акан навсегда изменили этнический облик стран Южной Америки и Карибского бассейна - Ямайки, Гаити, Кубы, Гвианы, Венесуэлы, Панамы и Бразилии, а также оставили значимый след в ряде районов Мексики и США.
В этом месяце африканские государства отмечают 400-летие трансатлантической работорговли. С 1510 г. по конец XIX в. из Западной и Центральной Африки в Новый Свет было вывезено около 15 млн человек. Чернокожие рабы из народов йоруба, игбо, конго, фон, акан навсегда изменили этнический облик стран Южной Америки и Карибского бассейна - Ямайки, Гаити, Кубы, Гвианы, Венесуэлы, Панамы и Бразилии, а также оставили значимый след в ряде районов Мексики и США.
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. 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.
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