I was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., before my father got an appointment at a university in Italy and we moved to Italy. I spend a few years there before my family returned to Russia. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
In my past, it looked like I could get into trouble in Russia - but I was not afraid then, and I'm not afraid… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
WhatsApp doesn't only fail to protect your WhatsApp messages - this app is being consistently used as a Trojan horse to spy on your non-WhatsApp photos and messages. — Pavel Durov Copy Share
When I turned 17, I created a website for the students at my University. It enabled students to share lectures and discuss exams, and… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Any government that likes to call themselves democratic should welcome Snowden and allow him to live in their country. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
VK is famous for its competitions among third-party developers who build alternative versions of VK on its open API. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
If you have WhatsApp and your phone goes down, you don't have access to your messages. You can't send documents and it's not private. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Despite this ever-increasing evidence of WhatsApp being a honeypot for people that still trust Facebook in 2019, it might also be the case that… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
