I know that VKontakte is giving information and even messaging history about people to authorities on the first request. That what was happening in Belarus after election and protests related to "fair" election. People where requested to go to the KGB/Police. In "nice" conversation with "pleasant" people they saw messaging logs from VKontakte, movements history based on mobile phone data and etc. Requests from different country and VKontakte was still giving that information for free.
I dont know about that, but I know that he didnt cooperate with Fedaral Security Service:
>After mass anti-Kremlin protests broke out in the wake of the disputed December 2011 elections to the Russian parliament, the State Duma, Durov reportedly refused to comply with a request from the Federal Security Service (FSB) to block opposition groups from using the site. There appeared to be no immediate repercussions, but then in April of 2013, Durov was accused of hitting a traffic policeman with his car, with a video of the alleged incident appearing online. On April 16, VKontakte's main offices in central St. Petersburg were searched by police. Durov, who denies even owning a car, fled the country and has not been seen in public since.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov
Wouldn't Pavel then rather not offer job to Snowden, knowing that every word from Snowden would be listened by the whole world, and that the whole world would then learn about such actions too?
As far as I remember that kind of actions once was officially admitted by Vkontakte. They said something about helping in crimes investigation and etc.
Good job, Pavel. Talk more about Privacy now.