...which were posed as the tricks of omnipresent Putin. That's all.It's about his failure to comply to the shareholders' expectations...
My personal opinion is that vkontakte is dead without pirate content. They don't fight against it (and sometimes that's good, because I like to watch Soviet movies there, especially if I need just a quote). But the reality is different. Copyright sharks don't sleep. I have heard they want to force vkontakte use special software to prevent publishing or/and spreading pirate content on the site. If they realize this idea, vkontakte loses lots of its users.