Patriarch Kirill opened the personal social-networking page on VK -- the Russian answer to Facebook also known as Vkontakte -- to mark the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, which commemorates ...

A hacker has obtained 171 million user accounts associated with social networking giant, VK.com. The stolen database contains full names, email addresses and plain-text passwords, and in many ...

Amid mounting pressure from the Kremlin, Pavel Durov steps away from the internet giant he created Amid mounting pressure from the Kremlin, Pavel Durov steps away from the internet giant he ...

Russian tech giant VK, which has recently disclosed significant losses, is planning to introduce a “super-app” in an effort to replicate the functionalities of China’s widely used WeChat app.

The Russian Ministry of Digital Affairs told state-controlled media outlet RT that it was investigating “the reasons for deleting VK applications and developer accounts, underlining the social ...

Yesterday Russian press reported that Yandex — a local giant often called the “Russian Google” — is in negotiations to sell its media division, with Russian social networking giant VK ...

Created by the founders of Russia’s biggest social networking platform ... Brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, who launched VK (originally called VKontakte) in 2006, began working on Telegram ...

Tucked among splashy affairs of SXSW in early March was a talk by Ev Williams, the investor known for having founded Twitter, Medium, and Blogger. This year he is promoting his new social app, Mozi.