Once, quite a while ago, I asked Durov why he wouldn’t co-operate with law enforcement when it comes to major crime. ‘This is my principled position,’ he said. ‘Then you’ll have serious problems in any country’ I told him.

He believed it was Russia that had the biggest problems in, so he left, and later obtained citizenship / residence permits in other countries. He wanted to be a genius ’person of the world’ who can live perfectly well without his Motherland. Ubi bene ibi patria!

He miscalculated. To all our common enemies, he is Russian — and therefore unpredictable and dangerous. Someone of different blood. Certainly not like Musk or Zuckerberg (who, by the way, actively works with the FBI). Durov ought to finally realize that your Motherland, just like the times you live in, is not a matter of choice.

WtR