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 VKontakte founder Pavel Durov accused the Ukrainian authorities of trying to extort a $100,000 bribe from him for returning the computer servers they had confiscated from his social network this summer.

The servers haven't been returned yet, and no cogent reason for seizing them has been provided, Durov wrote on his VKontakte page Sunday.

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