Concern grew about the Russian state's intentions for social media when a complex set of deals involving subsidiaries linked to Gazprom gave the state-owned gas company voting control of VKontakte, Russia's largest social network.

俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司关联子公司参与了一系列复杂交易，使这家国有天然气公司获得了俄罗斯最大社交网络VKontakte的投票权，这让人们对俄罗斯政府意图掌控社交媒体的担忧与日俱增。

Mr Durov—who has been dubbed Russia's answer to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook—left Russia ten years ago, complaining that he had been forced to sell his first social network, the Facebook-ish VKontakte, to Kremlin-friendly investors.

杜罗夫被称为俄罗斯对Facebook创始人马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）的回应，他在十年前离开了俄罗斯，抱怨他被迫将自己的第一个社交网络——带有Facebook风格的VKontakte——卖给对克里姆林宫友好的投资者。

About the same time, social media postings on Twitter and the Russian website VKontakte claimed that separatists had shot down an AN-26 military transport plane near the town of Torez, not far from the where the passenger plane crashed.

大约同一时间，社交媒体Twitter和俄罗斯网站VKontakte上有人发帖宣称分裂分子在距离客机失事位置不远处的小城Torez击落了一架AN-26军用运输机。