Pavel Durov (@durov) / X

Pavel Durov

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Pavel Durov

@durov

Founder, CEO at @telegram (2013), founder, ex-CEO of @vkontakte (2006), part-time troll.

United Arab Emirates

t.me/durov

Born October 10, 1984

Joined September 2008

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Pavel Durov
@durov
Oct 9, 2025
I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries
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Pavel Durov
@durov
Sep 28, 2025
🇲🇩 About a year ago, while I was stuck in Paris, the French intelligence services reached out to me through an intermediary, asking me to help the Moldovan government censor certain Telegram channels ahead of the presidential elections in Moldova. After reviewing the channels
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Pavel Durov
@durov
Sep 6, 2024
❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love! Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.
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Pavel Durov
@durov
Aug 24, 2025
One year ago, the French police detained me for 4 days because some people I’d never heard of used Telegram to coordinate crimes. Arresting a CEO of a major platform over the actions of its users was not only unprecedented — it was legally and logically absurd.
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Pavel Durov
@durov
Oct 14, 2025
🇪🇺 Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms: Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would force apps to scan every
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Pavel Durov
@durov
May 24, 2025
Instagram considered the Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius ‘dangerous.’
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Pavel Durov
@durov
Sep 5, 2024
I'm still trying to understand what happened in France. But we hear the concerns. I made it my personal goal to prevent abusers of Telegram's platform from interfering with the future of our 950+ million users. My full post below.
t.me
Pavel Durov
❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love! Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of...
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Pavel Durov
@durov
Jan 8, 2025
I’m proud that Telegram has supported freedom of speech long before it became politically safe to do so. Our values don’t depend on US electoral cycles. Today, other platforms are announcing they’ll now have less censorship. But the real test of their newly discovered values
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Pavel Durov
@durov
May 18, 2025
A Western European government (guess which 🥖) approached Telegram asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today’s presidential elections. I flatly refused. Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels.
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Pavel Durov
@durov
Jul 31, 2024
Just launched Telegram Browser, opening the world of TON-based Web3 for a ∼billion users
t.me
Pavel Durov
🚩 Big day! Today we introduce the Telegram Browser and Mini App Store, plus many other innovations ✨🍬 🖥 The Browser lets users switch between viewing websites and messaging, merging communication...
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Pavel Durov
@durov
May 18, 2025
This spring at the Salon des Batailles in the Hôtel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of elections. I refused. We didn’t block protesters in Russia, Belarus, or Iran. We won’t start doing it in Europe.
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Pavel Durov
@durov
Jul 10, 2025
If you want to reach your full potential and maintain clarity of mind, stay away from addictive substances. My success and health come from 20+ years of abstaining from alcohol, tobacco, coffee, pills, and illegal drugs. Short-term pleasure isn’t worth your future.
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Pavel Durov
@durov
May 19, 2025
French foreign intelligence confirmed they met with me — allegedly to fight terrorism and child porn. In reality, child porn was never even mentioned. They did want IPs of terror suspects in France, but their main focus was always geopolitics: Romania, Moldova, Ukraine.
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Pavel Durov
@durov
May 20, 2025
I’m ready to come and testify if it helps Romanian democracy.
🇷🇴 George Simion 🇲🇩
@georgesimion
May 20, 2025
🚨🇷🇴 I officially ask Constitutional Court TO ANNUL Romanian presidential elections (May 2025). For the very reasons December elections were annulled: EXTERNAL INTERFERENCES by state and non-state actors. This time proven with evidence! Neither 🇫🇷, nor 🇲🇩, nor anyone else has
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