Tag: VKontakte
From Yandex to VKontakte, the hangover of Russian tech
Hard to believe today, but there was a time when the tech sector was one of Russia’s most exciting success stories. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a bubbling…
Russian social network VKontakte comes under the control of Gazprom and Sogaz
This is the last step in the Kremlin’s takeover of VKontakte, the “Russian Facebook”. Created in 2006 by Pavel Durov, the multi-billionaire founder of Telegram who divides his time between…