The caption literally reads the following:
"To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for the sake of freedom."
The post immediately prompted many internet users to Photoshop the image, with many speculating on the most probable location and setting in which Durov might appear on horseback. Most have come to believe that it may be some kind of a stylized video game, with Durov being its central character.
Another Twitter user mocks the white horse he is sitting on, assuming it might be a galloper on a carousel:
On April 13, Russia’s communications watchdog ruled to halt the operations of the Russian messaging application Telegram after it had failed to provide the authorities with its encryption keys and thereby cooperate in terrorism-related investigations.