Despite having a very public job offer handed to him last August (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/01/us-usa-security-snowden-vkontakte-idUSBRE97014R20130801), Edward Snowden will not be joining Russian social networking website VKontakte (http://vk.com/) (VK), its founder Pavel Durov has confirmed to TechCrunch.
Contrary to reports (http://gawker.com/edward-snowdens-new-job-is-doing-tech-support-for-russ-1456750295)that Snowden's lawyer announced Snowden's employment at VK yesterday, Durov writes that the stories (http://gawker.com/edward-snowdens-new-job-is-doing-tech-support-for-russ-1456750295) and rumors are untrue. In fact, he told us onstage (http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/beat-american-companies-vkontakte/) at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in Berlin last week that Snowden, whom he views as a personal hero for exposing the NSA's international surveillance, had not reached out about the August offer.
Earlier this week, a Russian news agency reported (http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/31/5050096/edward-snowden-tech-support-job) that the whistleblower had secured post-asylum employment with a "major" Russian website, which could mean odnoklassniki.ru, mail.ru, liveinternet.ru and many others. (http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/RU) Yandex, which is the top website in Russia, confirmed to The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/31/5050096/edward-snowden-tech-support-job) that it had not given Snowden a job.
Guess we'll find out which site it actually is soon enough.
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