Durov responded to Mail.Ru Group attempts to swallow "VKontakte"
Recently, Mail.Ru Group Limited exercised the option to purchase a 7.44% stake in the social network VKontakte, increasing its share to 39.99%. According to media reports, the package was purchased for $ 111.7 million.
Mail.ru Group announced its intention to use the option to increase the package in November 2010. Then the company received an option to acquire another 7.5% of VKontakte in 2011. Later, the Director-General of Mail.Ru Group Dmitry Grishin said that the company he heads plans to absorb VKontakte, but Durov explained in an official response that VKontakte is not for sale.
And now, today the story has continued. Judging by the photo posted by Pavel on Instagram , Mail.Ru Group is still trying to absorb the largest social network, otherwise why publish "the official response of Mail.ru's thrash-holding on its next attempts to devour Kontakt"?