(Bloomberg) -- Russia’s attempts to restrict the use of virtual private networks amid a clampdown on the Telegram messaging platform triggered the widespread banking outage seen across the country this week, the service’s billionaire founder Pavel Durov said. “Telegram was banned in Russia, yet 65 million Russians still use it daily via VPNs,” Durov said Saturday in a post on Telegram. “The government has spent years trying to ban VPNs too. Their blocking attempts just triggered a massive bankin

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The Chinese box office isn't the Hollywood kingmaker it used to be. Here's why

CNBC2026.04.04

Shifting government content controls and postpandemic Hollywood trends have made China less of a player in the global box office landscape.