Is Pavel Durov, Russia's Zuckerberg, a Kremlin Target?
Pavel Durov is CEO of VKontakte, the most successful social media company in Russia. Has that made him a target of the Kremlin?
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The Singer House on 28 Nevsky Prospekt occupies perhaps St. Petersburg’s choicest piece of real estate. The six-story building, a bronze and glass jewel of early 20th century art nouveau, sits alongside the Griboyedov Canal, a winding slash of water that leads to the onion domes of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. It opened in 1904 to house the Singer Sewing Co.’s operations in Russia. After 1917, the Bolsheviks handed it over to a state-owned publisher that in turn opened the city’s grandest bookshop, which still exists.