Pavel Durov approached Elon Musk with a proposal to register an account on Telegram. He also clarified that
Durov prepared the name Ilona (Ilona) for Mask. The businessman began to call himself that after a dialogue with Ramzan Kadyrov, who called Musk Ilona, commenting on his challenge to a duel with Vladimir Putin.
As noted, despite the jokes, Kadyrov thanked Musk for refusing to block Russian media on the Starlink network in Ukraine.
Source: Gazeta.ru