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> mostly just Russians wanting to practice their English

I guess that explains their recommendation of VK Messenger as a replacement.

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> Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010.

I remember I paid $600 or so to Mirabilis around 1996 to buy their http server library to save the development time.