Премьер Словакии Роберт Фицо заявил, что Европа должна начать нормальный диалог с Россией: «Я хочу нормализации отношений с Россией. Мы должны начать нормальный диалог, потому что то, что происходит сегодня, ненормально. И я гарантирую, как только война закончится для всех, всë будет как обычно. Все поедут туда (в Россию), все захотят покупать и продавать». Фицо добавил, что не желает появления «новой железной границы» между Россией и Европой.
Премьер Словакии Роберт Фицо заявил, что Европа должна начать нормальный диалог с Россией: «Я хочу нормализации отношений с Россией. Мы должны начать нормальный диалог, потому что то, что происходит сегодня, ненормально. И я гарантирую, как только война закончится для всех, всë будет как обычно. Все поедут туда (в Россию), все захотят покупать и продавать». Фицо добавил, что не желает появления «новой железной границы» между Россией и Европой.
On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. 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. The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides.
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