Pavel Durov was fired from VKontakte

Today, April 21, the powers of the general director of the VKontakte social network Pavel Durov have been terminated.

This was told by RBC by the executive director of the social network Dmitry Sergeev.

The founder and general director of VKontakte wrote a departure statement on March 21, on April 1, he announced this on his page, but on April 3, he said that it was an Armelian joke. However, Sergeev said, Durov did not withdraw his statement, so the company's management was forced to dismiss him after 30 days.

In a slightly different circumstances of his dismissal, Pavel Durov himself describes in the message on his VKontakte page: “The review of my application for resigning from the post of general director on April 3 (which they had previously accepted before), was formalized“ not by all the rules ”.”

In addition, as the reason for today's decision, the founder of VKontakte mentions that last week he publicly refused at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office to close the Rospil - Corruption -Alexey Navalny group, and also posted on the Internet scans of the FSB requests demanding to reveal the data of the creators of the Euromaidan groups.

“Judging by the news, as a result of my public refusal last week, today I was fired from the post of general director VKontakte. It is interesting that the shareholders did not have the courage to do it directly, and I will learn about my mysterious dismissal from the press, ”said Durov.

“Thus, today VKontakte goes under the full control of Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov. - He writes - Probably, in Russian conditions, something similar was inevitable, but I am glad that we lasted 7 and a half years. We managed a lot. And part of what has been done can no longer turn back. ”