From the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Polytechnics community dedicated itself entirely to the defense of the country. Around 4,000 students and staff joined the active army, the people's militia, and partisan units.
From 1943, the institute operated in two locations — Tashkent and besieged Leningrad — continuing both education and scientific research under extreme conditions.
In 1944, after the return of faculty and students from evacuation, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (LPI) fully resumed academic operations.
To learn more about how the institute survived the war, visit the website: https://pobeda.spbstu.ru
From the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Polytechnics community dedicated itself entirely to the defense of the country. Around 4,000 students and staff joined the active army, the people's militia, and partisan units.
From 1943, the institute operated in two locations — Tashkent and besieged Leningrad — continuing both education and scientific research under extreme conditions.
In 1944, after the return of faculty and students from evacuation, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (LPI) fully resumed academic operations.
To learn more about how the institute survived the war, visit the website: https://pobeda.spbstu.ru
He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. 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. Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences.
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