-“In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. -All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, -the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful, -Master of the Day of Judgment. -You alone we worship, and You alone we ask for help. -Guide us to the straight path, -the path of those whom You have blessed; not of those who incurred Your Wrath, or of those who went astray.”
-“In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. -All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, -the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful, -Master of the Day of Judgment. -You alone we worship, and You alone we ask for help. -Guide us to the straight path, -the path of those whom You have blessed; not of those who incurred Your Wrath, or of those who went astray.”
On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. 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. 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. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. "Like the bombing of the maternity ward in Mariupol," he said, "Even before it hits the news, you see the videos on the Telegram channels."
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