The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Parliamentarians from the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia had all arranged video calls with a hoaxer claiming to be Leonid Volkov, chief of staff to imprisoned Russian anti-Putin politician Alexei Navalny. Our work is to prank high officials and celebrities and to make a lot of fun and publish it to social media,” says Stolyarov.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

We celebrated the pitch deck for being very good, but we may have poked a little bit of fun at it for being riddled with spelling mistakes and other silliness. What could be improved: This company is based in Riga, Latvia, which is in north-eastern Europe. About six months ago, we went through a pitch deck by a company called Supliful.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Before becoming pay-to-play, Twitter verification indicated a person was a public or notable figure of some sort — like a politician, celebrity, athlete, journalist or other well-known individual. Notably, these changes will also now apply to everyone who has their inboxes open to allow messages from anyone.

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VisionLink

JULY 4, 2011

My Grandfather Stahl smuggled himself out of Latvia, coming to America as a young man. Celebrate it. My mom''s parents brought her to America as a baby, escaping the holocaust that was to consume so many in their family. It''s the voice of we the people , governing ourselves as best we can, like we''ve been doing for 235 years.

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