He said that from his vantage point he couldn’t see what was happening on the street and stopped when he was told people were fighting. It created an outcry at a time of rising nationalism.Ī few weeks later, he and other VKontakte executives folded 5,000-ruble notes - worth about $155 at the time - into paper airplanes and threw them out an office window, sparking a fight in the street below. “In some ways, it was more liberal than the United States.” “The best thing about Russia at that time was the Internet sphere was completely not regulated,” he said. Durov says, he envisioned his country as a tax-free and libertarian utopia for technologists. The Internet was once seen as a way to diversify Russia’s economy beyond oil. His odyssey reflects the changing nature of the Internet in Russia.
He is surfacing to showcase his new messaging app, Telegram, for people craving privacy and security.
When he arrived with little warning in London for his first interview outside cyberspace since leaving Russia, he was en route to San Francisco, where he appeared at a technology conference on Tuesday. Durov said, wearing a custom-made cross between a hoodie and a sport coat. “Me myself, I’m not a big fan of the idea of countries,” Mr. One day he is in Paris, another in Singapore. Durov, known for his subversive wit and an all-black wardrobe that evokes Neo from the “Matrix” movies, is now a little-seen nomad, moving from country to country every few weeks with a small band of computer programmers.
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