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EU company helped Moscow with mass surveillance: In Moscow, protesters are arrested with the help of facial recognition. The software was trained using a ...
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EU company helped Moscow with mass surveillance
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Drivers really don't trust self-driving cars: Crashes have shaped the public's perception of autonomous vehicles, and a new survey shows how deeply trust has ...
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Drivers really don't trust self-driving cars
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⚡️The European Union has lifted sanctions against Arkadiy Volozh, the billionaire and co-founder of Russia's largest internet company, "Yandex ... Show more
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Yandex, Polymetal shareholders set to approve major Russian exit deals: Two of Russia's largest corporate exit deals since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine are up ...
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Yandex, Polymetal shareholders set to approve major Russian exit deals
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Reuters: EU to remove Yandex co-founder from Russian sanctions list: EU countries agreed to remove Arkady Volozh, co-founder of Russia's most popular search ...
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Reuters: EU to remove Yandex co-founder from Russian sanctions list
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Russia says goodbye to the future with Yandex sale: Yandex, a technology company once hailed as the "Russian Google", is selling the majority of its business at ...
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Russia says goodbye to the future with Yandex sale
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Yandex management to be largest shareholder after planned $5.2 billion deal: An entity formed of senior Yandex managers will become the Russian internet ...
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Yandex management to be largest shareholder after planned $5 ...
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Yandex: IT group sells Russian business - spectacular change of ownership: Yandex was once Russia's most innovative IT company. Now the Amsterdam-based group is ...
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Yandex: IT group sells Russian business - spectacular change of ownership
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Focus: After months of negotiation, a rare Russian compromise as Yandex changes hands
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Focus: After months of negotiation, a rare Russian compromise as Yandex ...
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With Yango Maps you are always aware of the current traffic situation, feel at ease on the new roads, and have no need to worry parking options near your ... Show more
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Tech Giant Yandex Gets New Russian Owner Ahead of Restructuring: A Russia-based company has become the legal owner of tech giant Yandex as it prepares to ...
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Tech Giant Yandex Gets New Russian Owner Ahead of Restructuring
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Yandex's restructuring deal expected to be delayed to next year: The completion of Nasdaq-listed Russian tech company Yandex's (YNDX.O) restructuring is expected ...
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Yandex's restructuring deal expected to be delayed to next year
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One App To Rule Them All: Coming Soon To Russia's Internet: A single app that can be used for everything from social media and instant messaging to government ...
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One App To Rule Them All: Coming Soon To Russia's Internet
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Russia: Is Google also involved in propaganda dissemination?: Propaganda in Russia is becoming increasingly drastic. Google is also contributing to its spread ...
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Russia: Is Google also involved in propaganda dissemination?
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Yandex Founder Calls for Sanctions Removal After Criticism of Russian Invasion: Yandex NV co-founder Arkady Volozh shouldn’t have been sanctioned after Vladimir ...
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Yandex Founder Calls for Sanctions Removal After Criticism of Russian ...
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Putin's war with Ukraine has basically killed one of Russia's most successful tech firms
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Putin's war with Ukraine has basically killed one of Russia's most ...
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The Download: recreating the early internet, and 2023 in climate data: Plus: the new US AI executive order has landed
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The Download: recreating the early internet, and 2023 in climate data
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How Russia’s liberal tech companies became foundation of Putin’s war effort: Fridays at Russian tech giant Yandex — the company once christened as ...
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How Russia’s liberal tech companies became foundation of Putin’s war ...
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Yango Taxi App Investigated Over Possible Data Mining by Kremlin Agency: The Yango taxi hailing app operates in a dozen European countries amid fears that its ...
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Yango Taxi App Investigated Over Possible Data Mining by Kremlin Agency
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Russia: Putin's War Destroyed This Successful Tech Company: Putin's war on Ukraine may have killed one of Russia's most promising tech companies.
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Russia: Putin's War Destroyed This Successful Tech Company
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“Blick”, TX Group and NZZ sent reader data to Moscow: Swiss media publishers have sent personal data to Russian big tech company Yandex, which is controlled by ...
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“Blick”, TX Group and NZZ sent reader data to Moscow
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Russia Uber Rival Probed Over Fears Secret Service Accessed Data: Russian ride-hailing app Yango is under investigation over concerns that it’s a conduit for ...
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Russia Uber Rival Probed Over Fears Secret Service Accessed Data
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Russia Revises Yandex Partition Terms Over Founder’s Anti-War Stance – Reports: The Russian government has lowered the payout offered in the restructuring of ...
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Russia Revises Yandex Partition Terms Over Founder’s Anti-War Stance – ...
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Russian billionaire pleads for EU sanctions relief after decrying war: Request from Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh is test of whether bloc will reward Russians ...
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Russian billionaire pleads for EU sanctions relief after decrying war
Quick Glance: Russian Billionaire Calls for End of Sanctions after Condemning Putin's War
  • Russian oligarch urges EU to lift sanctions after condemning Putin's war

  • First test of how the West will handle previously sanctioned oligarchs criticizing the war

  • Wolosch personally appalled by bombing of Ukrainian homes

  • Activists occupy Wolosch's Amsterdam townhouse since sanctions were imposed
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EU Set to Lift Sanctions on Two Russians Soon, But Not Yandex’s Volozh Yet: The European Union is set to lift sanctions on two Russian businessmen after a review ...
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EU Set to Lift Sanctions on Two Russians Soon, But Not Yandex’s Volozh Yet
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Ukraine Blog: Photos, Fakes and Questions: Kremlin Grabs Internet Giant Yandex: "Putin's banker" is to buy Yandex, the Russian Google. The authorities want to ...
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Ukraine Blog: Photos, Fakes and Questions: Kremlin Grabs Internet Giant ...
Quick Glance: Yandex Co-founder Condemns Ukraine War
  • Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh resigns following inclusion in EU sanctions list

  • Yandex enlists Putin ally to aid in restructuring

  • China imposes export ban on domestically developed Loongson chips to Russia

  • Russian state media portrays Yandex as leaving Russia
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Yandex co-founder calls war ‘barbaric,’ signaling dismay in Russian elite: Arkady Volozh became the second prominent Russian business executive to publicly ...
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Yandex co-founder calls war ‘barbaric,’ signaling dismay in Russian elite
Quick Glance: Yandex co-founder condemns barbaric war and criticizes Russian elite
  • A co-founder of Yandex, Russia’s biggest tech company, publicly denounces President Putin’s war against Ukraine.

  • While other Russian billionaires remain silent, he renounces his Russian citizenship and sells his assets to the government.

  • Volozh emphasizes that Yandex was built with more than just technology and business in mind.

  • Imposition of sanctions leads Russian billionaires to separate their international businesses from their Russian ones.
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Yandex Maps’ surprising feature exposes something interesting about Israel: An attempt to locate France’s nuclear submarines revealed different censorship ...
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Yandex Maps’ surprising feature exposes something interesting about Israel
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Yandex founder slams ‘barbaric’ Russian war on Ukraine: The founder of Russian tech giant Yandex on Thursday described Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine ...
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Yandex founder slams ‘barbaric’ Russian war on Ukraine
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UN Atomic Watchdog's Inspectors Still Don't Have Access To Rooftops At Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant
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UN Atomic Watchdog's Inspectors Still Don't Have Access To Rooftops At ...
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One Question for Arkady Volozh and Other Russian Billionaires : Opinion | Arkady Volozh, one of the founders of Russia’s tech giant Yandex and one of the ...
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One Question for Arkady Volozh and Other Russian Billionaires
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Yandex General Director Accused of Violating ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Ban: The general director of Russian tech giant Yandex is under investigation for violating the ...
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Yandex General Director Accused of Violating ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Ban
Quick Glance: Yandex CEO Accused of Violating 'LGBT Propaganda' Ban
  • The CEO of Russian tech giant Yandex is under investigation for violating the country's ban on displaying 'gay propaganda' toward minors.

  • The case against Artyom Savinovsky is linked to his current role as head of the media department at Kinopoisk, an online movie database and streaming service owned by Yandex.

  • The company plans to appeal the decision, according to a representative of the Kinopoisk press service.

  • The publicly available court records cited by Mediazona do not specify who initiated the lawsuit against Savinovsky.
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Yango prohibited from transferring personal data from Finland to Russia: Yango, the ride-hailing service by Russia’s Yandex, will be prohibited from transferring ...
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Yango prohibited from transferring personal data from Finland to Russia
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‘User X with driver Y traveled from point A to point B’ Yandex is set to start sharing taxi ride data with the FSB. Yango app users in Israel, Europe ...
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‘User X with driver Y traveled from point A to point B’ Yandex is set to ...
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Chief of Russia’s Yandex faces court case for ‘LGBT propaganda': The chief executive of Nasdaq-listed internet company Yandex faces prosecution in a Russian ...
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Chief of Russia’s Yandex faces court case for ‘LGBT propaganda'
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In a recent statement, the wilaya of the Casablanca-Settat region has accused the operations of the foreign transportation company, Yango ... Show more
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Bad billionaires A Putin-approved plan to sell Yandex’s Russian assets to a ‘consortium’ might collapse due to Western shareholders’ concerns about sanctions — ...
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Bad billionaires A Putin-approved plan to sell Yandex’s Russian assets to ...
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Uber to exit Israel as market share disappoints: In Israel, Uber is trailing behind Israeli-founded Gett and Russian-owned company Yango when it comes to taxi ...
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Uber to exit Israel as market share disappoints
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Tycoons’ Bids Value ‘Russia’s Google’ at $7 Billion: Yandex NV has received bids from billionaires Vladimir Potanin and Vagit Alekperov to buy a controlling ...
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Tycoons’ Bids Value ‘Russia’s Google’ at $7 Billion
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Russian billionaires in hunt for stakes in Yandex's local assets – sources: Yandex's Dutch-registered holding company Yandex NV – whose shareholders ...
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Russian billionaires in hunt for stakes in Yandex's local assets – ...
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Ride-Hailing Firm With Russian Roots Challenges Uber in Dubai: A ride-hailing firm with Russian origins has nabbed a significant chunk of the market from Uber ...
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Ride-Hailing Firm With Russian Roots Challenges Uber in Dubai
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Russian-origin ride hailing firm competes with Uber in Dubai: A ride-hailing firm with Russian origins has nabbed a significant chunk of the market from Uber ...
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Russian-origin ride hailing firm competes with Uber in Dubai
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Yandex to Offer Investors Choice of Russia or Foreign Assets: Investors in Yandex NV will get to choose whether to keep a stake in the company’s profitable ...
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Yandex to Offer Investors Choice of Russia or Foreign Assets
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The Russian Internet at war — Meduza: After February 24, 2022, when many Western Internet companies withdrew from Russia, and the Russian state itself outlawed ...
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The Russian Internet at war — Meduza
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Tycoons’ Bids Value ‘Russia’s Google’ at $7 Billion: Yandex NV has received bids from billionaires Vladimir Potanin and Vagit Alekperov to buy a controlling ...
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Tycoons’ Bids Value ‘Russia’s Google’ at $7 Billion