VKontakte is 10 years old: What’s the secret of the ‘Russian Facebook’?
A youth project with lots of free content, launched in 2006, VKontakte soon conquered the Russian-speaking social network market. Despite the management change and a wave of scandals, today it is still the most popular site in Russia, with more users than Facebook and Twitter.
21 Oct 2016 ... A Facebook clone or a unique Russian project? Just like Facebook, VK was initially a project for students. Durov had started developing an online ...