Why women want to have a baby with this man
After news that this particular man’s sperm had been donated to IVF clinics in Moscow, women have been rushing for their chance to obtain it.
Russian women are racing to get impregnated by a tech billionaire who has fathered more than 100 kids after donating his sperm.
Pavel Durov, 39, is responsible for a boom in business for Moscow IVF clinics after news of his donation broke.
“Potential mothers of future genii stand in lines for hours to find the right profile, and offer bribes for exactly his sperm,” reported news outlet Mash.
Durov founded the so-called Russian Facebook – named VK – as well as Telegram messenger, and is worth $26.6 billion. His Telegram empire is worth some around $45.9 billion, and he has been dubbed the Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.
He recently revealed he was a sperm donor, saying he felt as though it was his “civic duty” to do so.
“My past donating activity has helped over a hundred couples in 12 countries to have kids,” he boasted.
He revealed that one Russian clinic “still has my frozen sperm available for anonymous use by families who want to have kids”.
The billionaire said: “I plan to open-source my DNA so that my biological children can find each other more easily. Of course, there are risks, but I don’t regret having been a donor.
“The shortage of healthy sperm has become an increasingly serious issue worldwide, and I’m proud that I did my part to help alleviate it.
“I also want to help destigmatise the whole notion of sperm donation and incentivise more healthy men to do it.”
Since this revelation, women have rushed to try and find Durov’s sperm — going so far as trying to bribe medical staff, according to Mash.
His profile is alleged to read: “I know nine foreign languages and can keep a conversation in English, Farsi, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian [ …] A big IT-entrepreneur, programmer.”
But adverts which appeared online for his biomaterial are reported to be fake. News outlet E1 contacted the clinic where his sperm is stored, with the clinic explaining the costs involved.
It also explained his form says; “The donor’s questionnaire says that Durov is a Libra according to the zodiac sign, right-handed, an early bird. He is a pedant, a vegetarian.
“As a child, he loved building blocks and computers.”
RT propaganda outlet said the clinic spoke about the “excitement” among potential female recipients regarding “Durov’s material”, explaining that “all the appointments are only for him”.
“They showed Durov’s childhood photos and several photos of children allegedly born from him,” said the outlet.
They told women that “all children born from Pavel begin to read by the age of one and a half”.
His revelation of being a prolific sperm-donor was made soon after a Russian woman based in Switzerland told Russian Forbes that the unmarried Durov had fathered her three children.
In a post on Telegram, Durov did not comment on this claim but said: “I was just told that I have over 100 biological kids.”
The woman Irina Bolgar, 43, claimed in that Durov had fathered her daughter and two sons, born in St Petersburg in 2013, 2016 and 2017, and that they carry his name.
She claimed she had a relationship with him and denied she had used him as a sperm donor.
“Fortunately, Pavel and I, as a couple, did not have problems with reproduction to resort to the help of specialists in this matter,” she said.
“All our children were conceived and born naturally.”
Durov has lived outside Russia since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Crimea and the Donbas area of Ukraine in 2014.
He refused “unlawful” demands to hand over personal data from VK of pro-Ukrainian protesters and was effectively ousted from this major social media platform which came under the control of pro-Putin elements.
Durov is currently based in the United Arab Emirates.
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Reports say he now has citizenship of the UAE, St Kitts and Nevis, and France.
He was quoted by TechCrunch in 2014 as saying: “I don’t have any business in Russia and have no plans to return there.
“I have no Russian citizenship anymore.”