Saturday's "Lunch with the FT" column was about Pavel Durov, a young Russian tech entrepreneur. He described the development of his social networking site VKontakte:
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It was, he says a "libertarian's paradise" in the unregulated internet market that then existed in Russia. "You could do anything," he says. "Of course, there were stupid laws. You could get around them with the help of corruption, which is usually bad, but when the laws are really stupid and outdated and really limit innovation, it can be a good thing."
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Really?
