Hello everyone,
Hope you had fun durinig the Easter holidays.
I have some disturbing news to share today.
One of our major sources of quality death photos and videos vk.com has been taken over by Vladimir Putin after the founder of the Russian social media website Pavel Durov was forced to leave his country because he refused to cooperate with Putin's regime.
Pavel Durov launched vkontakte in October 2006 on a platform similar to facebook.
The site has more than 100 million users and had been subject to several government requests for information.
Mr Durov had been asked by the Russian authorities to hand over the details of Ukrainians who had used the site to create groups related to anti-government protests. He was also asked to close down a group that supported Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
He refused the request and said he sold his shares in the company so that he could continue "to make the right decisions".
"I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend," he said in a post at the time.
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