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Pavel Durov, the founder of VK and Telegram, is a French-Emirati citizen. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but moved to France when he was 16. He received a degree in computer science from the University of Paris-Sud. In 2013, he founded Telegram, a messaging app that has become one of the most popular in the world. In 2017, he was forced to leave Russia due to government pressure.