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by lambdadmitry 3005 days ago
He's not "in exile", it was bluff/PR piece. He regularly visits St-Petersburg, and the main development office was also in St-Petersburg as of a year back right next door to the Vkontakte one.

Durov is a very shady person, I wouldn't trust him with anything that you may want to keep private. Check out how a story by ex-employee of his [1], it gives a lot of backstage info.

[1] https://medium.com/@anton.rozenberg/pavel-durov-sued-senior-...