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Pavel Durov was entrepreneur from Russia
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Get Pavel's Quotes“Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.”— Pavel Durov
Posted on Durov's Telegram channel, April 13, 2018, the day a Moscow court ordered Telegram blocked in Russia for refusing to hand over encryption keys.
The Story of Pavel
Legacy
Paris, August 24
On August 24, 2024, Durov was arrested at Le Bourget airport in Paris. French authorities charged him with complicity in crimes committed through Telegram. Four days in solitary confinement. As of 2025, Telegram has passed one billion users and over $500 million in profit without selling user data. He is forty-one, stateless by choice, still running the platform from wherever he happens to be.
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