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by _nx010_
3294 days ago
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Durov is the founder and ex-CEO of Russia's (and Europe's) largest social network site, Vkontakte. He is one of the few tech billionaires from Russia. A few years ago, Kremlin tried getting their hands on Vkontakte (to be able to more easily monitor/censor), but Durov kept rebuffing them. Eventually, they intimidated him into selling his majority stake to one of their pet oligarchs. As you can imagine, Durov is pretty bitter about his company being taken away from him (and generally bitter about security services trying to mess with people's rights). After cashing out, he's moved to the EU and become a consistent critic of the Russian government. |
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