Pavel Durov left Russia

The founder of the VKontakte social network Pavel Durov, who was just dismissed from the post of its general director, left Russia and announced that it may have already begun the development of a mobile social network this year.

“I'm not in Russia, and I'm not going to return. - Durov said Technoglog TechCrunch . “Unfortunately, now the country is incompatible with business on the Internet.”

“I'm afraid there are no roads back anyway now, after I publicly refused to cooperate with the authorities. They cannot stand me, ”he added.

The powers of the general director of VKontakte were terminated on Monday, April 21. As an official reason, it was called that Pavel Durov did not withdraw his statement about the dismissal, which he himself announced to the First April Joke.

Durov believes that he was fired due to public refusal to close the anti-corruption group of Alexei Navalny, as well as the refusal to fulfill the FSB requirement to reveal the data of the creators of the Euromaidan groups.

Durov did not reveal any details of his new project. Techcruch observer suggests that we are talking about developing a foreign -language free messenger for foreign markets for Telegram smartphones, which Durov introduced last year.