Examples of central regulation of cultural products include the standardisation of languages (e.g. the Académie Française's codification of French) and cuisine (e.g. European designation of origin laws requiring some culturally significant food to be prepared in a particular region and style).

"Ballroom culture, in the late 20th century, was an underground Latino and African-American Queer subculture in New York City. Ballroom revolved around drag pageants, in which most participants were members of chosen communities referred to as ""houses"". Ballroom was popularised in the late 80s/early 90s, which saw the release of 'Paris is Burning' (an influential documentary about Ballroom) and the rise of voguing, a kind of dance. Ballroom has a strong contemporary cultural influence in mainstream dance, slang, music, and fashion, and in drag.
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In the aftermath of Russia's invasion on Ukraine, European states have imposed a vast array of sanctions on Russia, but notably have largely exlcluded Russian energy exports from these sanctions. While Russia has retaliated by reducing exports of natural gas via major pipelines such as NordStream, it still exports natural gas and LNG to Europe via various means and remains Europe's largest supplier of energy.

The DAO is a decentralised autonomous organisation built on the Ethereum blockchain. It operates as a type of venture capital fund. The DAO’s initial coin offering (think about it like the crypto version of an IPO) was the most successful crowdfunding venture ever and generated $168 million of ether. Unfortunately, The DAO crashed only weeks after it had been launched because someone found a loophole in the code and drained a third of the firm’s capital contribution into a separate account that was inaccessible to the firm. The Ethereum community chose to reset the code prior to the breach so investors could recover their original contribution.

OpenSea froze trading on 16 Bored Apes NFTs (valued at $2.2 million) after they were stolen from Todd Kramer's (an art gallery owner) hot wallet.

Until 2009, Spain had universal jurisdiction to prosecute entirely foreign crimes against humanity. Spanish officials led several major prosecutions, notably against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.