MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated on Sunday that Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founding father of the Telegram messaging app, miscalculated by fleeing Russia and considering that he would by no means should cooperate with the safety companies overseas.
Medvedev associated a dialog he had with Durov a number of years in the past by which Medvedev advised him that if he didn’t wish to cooperate with regulation enforcement businesses then he would have issues in any nation.
Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Safety Council, stated Durov needed to be a ‘good “man of the world” who lives splendidly with no Motherland.”
“He miscalculated,” Medvedev stated. “For all our widespread enemies now, he’s Russian – and subsequently unpredictable and harmful.”
“Durov ought to lastly realise that one can’t selected one’s the fatherland,” Medvedev stated.
(Reporting by Reuters; modifying by Man Faulconbridge)
