Ousted VK.com CEO Pavel Durov Posts On Facebook, Seeks Civil Rights-Friendly State To Build A Startup

This has to be one of more captivating startup pitches of the year. Pavel Durov, the founder of popular Russian social network VKontakte.com, was fired this week from his role as CEO amid claims that the government leaned on him to censor political content on the site. Now, in a Facebook post (pointedly not on VK.com...), Durov has spoken up again.