Telegram, based in Dubai, was founded by Russian-born Durov, who left Russia in 2014 after he refused to comply with demands to shut down opposition communities on his VK social media platform ...

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov celebrated 1 billion monthly active users and called rival WhatsApp "a cheap, watered-down ...