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Posted: 2012-05-31T00:49:04Z | Updated: 2012-06-01T11:14:15Z Pavel Durov, Russian Millionaire, Throws Money Paper Planes Onto Passersby In St Petersburg | HuffPost Life

Pavel Durov, Russian Millionaire, Throws Money Paper Planes Onto Passersby In St Petersburg

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While Mark Zuckerberg is failing to leave tips at restaurants on his honeymoon in Rome , his Russian counterpart is doing just the opposite.

According to a report from Russia Today, Pavel Durov, owner and CEO of the popular Russian social networking site VKontakte, the 27-year-old millionaire threw paper planes made out of 5,000 ruble notes from his office window over the weekend.

In total, Durov threw out $2,000 worth of money onto a crowd of people in central St. Petersburg . Not surprisingly, a fight broke out among the throng of people clutching for the bills.

This isn't the first headline grabbing act from Durov, who is said to be worth over $260 million . Recently, he published a manifesto spelling out how to turn Russia into a booming economy .

Two of Durov's ideas from the manifesto include abolishing Russia's national currency and allowing foreign interests to purchase state land , reports Business Insider.

Correction: An original version of this story misspelled the word for Russia's currency. In fact, the unit of Russian currency is the ruble.

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