12 ноября депутат:ки Госдумы приняли законопроект о «запрете пропаганды идеологии отказа от рождения детей». В тот же день у здания Госдумы прошла акция протеста: четверо феминисток в красном и в белых шляпах пришли к зданию в Москве. Их одежда отсылала к книге писательницы Маргарет Этвуд «Рассказ служанки».
Образы служанок использовались в акциях протеста и в других странах — от США до Израиля. Рассказываем, как активистки по всему миру превратили символ угнетения в протестный.
12 ноября депутат:ки Госдумы приняли законопроект о «запрете пропаганды идеологии отказа от рождения детей». В тот же день у здания Госдумы прошла акция протеста: четверо феминисток в красном и в белых шляпах пришли к зданию в Москве. Их одежда отсылала к книге писательницы Маргарет Этвуд «Рассказ служанки».
Образы служанок использовались в акциях протеста и в других странах — от США до Израиля. Рассказываем, как активистки по всему миру превратили символ угнетения в протестный.
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. Crude oil prices edged higher after tumbling on Thursday, when U.S. West Texas intermediate slid back below $110 per barrel after topping as much as $130 a barrel in recent sessions. Still, gas prices at the pump rose to fresh highs. The original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels. 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. 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.
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