Russian government insists that people should use Russian social media. Intelligence agencies want to have access to people's personal data. They slow down Twitter and might soon do the same thing for Facebook and YouTube in order to control them.

The situation used to be different. Personal profiles used to be one's private territory. It was the core idea at the time Russian social media websites were originating.

This story is about Pavel Durov and other social media creators in Russia. How did it begin? What did they plan and hope for? When did the young IT creators decide to hand over websites they created to the government related companies?

Contents
0:00 Intro
2:38 Brothers Durov - indie programmers
4:47 Durov tried to provoke people on his Forum
9:24 About Durov during his university years
12:29 About creator of Odnoklassniki, another popular Russian social media.
15:17 Pavel Durov's brother, money from mafia and Vkontakte as a copy of Facebook.
18:39 Odnoklassniki was created as a hobby
21:19 How Vkontakte began: invitations to register and ads free website.
29:40 Start up spirit. How did Odnoklassniki begin?
31:37 Vkontakte followed Apple style management
33:37 "Copy right owners are similar to slave traders." About porno and pirated content.
36:21 Yuriy Milner and his vision of work with IT start ups.
41:29 How did the team call Durov?
45:29 Why were Vkontakte parties alcohol free?
46:52 Intellectual people mostly used Odnoklassniki and then moved to Facebook. Why so?
48:46 When did the government become interested in the Internet?
51:51 What happened after comprehensive monetization of Odnoklassniki?
56:16 Why did Durov throw money out of the window?
59:09 How much were people paid when they worked in Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki?
1:00:27 When did Odnoklassniki become a part of Mail.ru Group?
1:03:04 Why did Durov had a conflict with Vkontakte co-founders and deleted their profiles?
1:05:01 In 2011, Russian prosecutors asked Vkontakte to delete groups that coordinated protests. How did Durov respond?
1:07:49 Why did Durov create Telegram?
1:13:03 How and when Durov was fired from Vkontakte?
1:18:42 "It's really sad that Pavel was there during the Putin's rule."