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Pavel Valeryevich Durov ((ロシア語:Па́вел Вале́рьевич Ду́ров); born 10 October 1984) is a Russian entrepreneur, best known for being the founder of social networking site VK, and later the Telegram Messenger.〔("Why Telegram has become the hottest messaging app in the world" ), The Verge, 25 February 2014.〕 He is the younger brother of Nikolai Durov. == Biography == Pavel Durov was born in Leningrad (now known as St.Petersburg), but spent most of his childhood in Italy, in the city of Turin. His father Valery (who holds a PhD in philology) was employed there.〔("Is Pavel Durov a Kremlin target?" ), Bloomberg, 1 August 2013〕 He attended an Italian elementary school, and after returning to Russia in 2001 attended the Academy Gymnasium in St. Petersburg.〔("Prominent Russians: Pavel Durov" ), Russia Today. Retrieved 8 March 2013.〕 In 2006, he graduated from the Philology Department of the Saint Petersburg State University, where he received a first class degree. Durov started VKontakte, later known as VK, in 2006, which was initially influenced by Facebook. In 2011 he was involved in a standoff with a SWAT team outside his home in St. Petersburg after the government had demanded the removal of the pages of opposition politicians after controversial parliamentary elections.〔〔("The Pavel Durov Code: Five stories from the life of VK and its creator" ) , Forbes, 22 November 2012.〕 They left after about an hour. On April 16, 2014 Durov publicly refused to hand over data of Ukrainian protesters to Russia's security agencies and block Alexey Navalny's page on VK.〔 Instead he posted the relevant orders on his own VK page 〔(Pavel's post on VK )〕〔(Pavel's post on VK )〕 claiming that the requests were unlawful. On April 21, 2014 Durov was dismissed as VK CEO. The company claimed it was acting on a letter of resignation written by Durov a month earlier that he supposedly failed to recall.〔〔("Vkontakte Founder Pavel Durov Learns He's Been Fired Through Media" ), The Moscow Times, 22 April 2014.〕 Durov then claimed the company had been effectively taken over by Vladimir Putin's allies,〔〔("Pavel Durov left Russia after being pushed out" ), The Economic Times, 22 April 2014.〕 suggesting his ousting was the result both of his refusal to hand over personal details of users to the Russian Federal Security Service and his refusal to hand over the personal details of people who were members of a VKontakte group dedicated to the Euromaidan protest movement.〔〔 Durov then left Russia and stating that he had "no plans to go back"〔 and that "the country is incompatible with Internet business at the moment".〔("Durov, Out For Good From VK.com, Plans A Mobile Social Network Outside Russia" ), TechCrunch, 22 April 2014.〕 Durov holds libertarian economic and political views and says he is a vegetarian and identifies as a Taoist.〔(Pavel's profile page on vk.com )〕 He published anarcho-capitalist manifestos describing his ideas on improving Russia.〔("A Manifesto for 21st-Century Russia ), Afisha Magazine, 18 May 2012.〕 On his 27th birthday, he donated a million dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation.〔("Founder of Facebook for Russia donates $1M to Wikipedia at DLD" ), VentureBeat, 24 January 2012〕 Pavel Durov's early life and career are described in detail in the Russian-language book ''The Durov Code. The True Story of VK and its Creator'' (2012). 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pavel Durov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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