Pavel Durov

I couldn't walk for two weeks after.

I stayed at my place and I decided not to tell most of my team about it because, again, I didn't want them to worry.

But it was tough.

Interestingly, not at all.

If anything, I felt even more free after that.

I had an experience when I assumed something bad is going to happen to me a few years before that, also in relation to my work.

But

After you survive something like this, you feel like you're living on bonus time.

So, in a way, you died a long time ago.

And every...

New day you get is a gift.

Is a bonus.

The first of these instances was in December 2011.

December 2011, you had this huge protest on the streets of Moscow.

They didn't trust in the integrity of the election results to the state Duma in Russia.

And I remember in 2011, I still lived in Russia.

running VK.

There was no Telegram.

So the government demanded that we take down the opposition groups of Navalny from VK that had hundreds of thousands of members and that were used to organize this protest.

And I very publicly refused to do that.