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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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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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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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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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The companies powering Russia’s surveillance system rely on outsourced workers who complete online tasks to improve algorithms and AI 🎥 We’ve found footage ... Show more

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How Russia killed its tech industry: The invasion of Ukraine supercharged the decline of the country’s already struggling tech sector—and undercut its biggest ...
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How Russia killed its tech industry
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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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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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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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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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Inside The Obscure Russian Agency That Censors The Internet: An RFE/RL Investigation
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Inside The Obscure Russian Agency That Censors The Internet: An RFE/RL ...
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Yandex Censors Search So ‘Bald F*cker’ and ‘Bunker Grandad’ Won’t Show Putin: Report
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Yandex Censors Search So ‘Bald F*cker’ and ‘Bunker Grandad’ Won’t Show ...
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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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Russia's Yandex co-founder Volozh pens farewell message to staff: The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex (YNDX.O), Arkady Volozh, said goodbye in an ...
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Russia's Yandex co-founder Volozh pens farewell message to staff
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Ukraine Says Nuclear Power Plants Are Back Online: Live Updates: After Russian missile strikes crippled much of Ukraine’s electricity grid ...
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Ukraine Says Nuclear Power Plants Are Back Online: Live Updates
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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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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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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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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 company attacked: Hackers apparently trigger cab jam in Moscow: Dozens of cabs clogged a main street in the Russian capital last Thursday ...
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Russian company attacked: Hackers apparently trigger cab jam in Moscow
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Russian tech giant wants out of the country as Ukraine war rages on: Yandex, Russia's biggest tech company, wants to cut ties with the country because of the ...
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Russian tech giant wants out of the country as Ukraine war rages on
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Russia tightens grip on media as Yandex sells homepage, news to rival VK: Russia's leading internet firm Yandex on Tuesday (23 August) said it had agreed to sell ...
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Russia tightens grip on media as Yandex sells homepage, news to rival VK
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Is Yandex, Russia’s Largest Tech Company, Too Big to Fail?: It took 20 years for Arkady Volozh to build Yandex into Russia’s Google, Uber, Spotify ...
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Is Yandex, Russia’s Largest Tech Company, Too Big to Fail?
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Kremlin Ally Kudrin Confirms Move to Tech Giant Yandex: Longtime Kremlin ally Alexei Kudrin confirmed Monday that he has accepted a role at tech giant Yandex as ...
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Kremlin Ally Kudrin Confirms Move to Tech Giant Yandex
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DoS attack on Yandex Taxi: traffic jam in Moscow after fake orders.: Attackers manage to place a flood of cab orders to the same Moscow address ...
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DoS attack on Yandex Taxi: traffic jam in Moscow after fake orders.
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Hackers caused a massive traffic jam in Moscow using a ride-hailing app: Hackers caused a huge traffic jam in Moscow after using the Yandex Taxi ride-hailing app ...
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Hackers caused a massive traffic jam in Moscow using a ride-hailing app
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Russia’s media watchdog blocks independent news website Novaya Gazeta: Russia’s media watchdog blocked access to the website of independent news site Novaya ...
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Russia’s media watchdog blocks independent news website Novaya Gazeta
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Gridlock as hackers order hundreds of taxis to same place in Moscow: Some social media users have described it as "like a film scene".
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Gridlock as hackers order hundreds of taxis to same place in Moscow
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How War in Ukraine Roiled Russia’s ‘Coolest Company’: The decline of Yandex, the Russian version of Google, is emblematic of the economic and cultural troubles ...
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How War in Ukraine Roiled Russia’s ‘Coolest Company’
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A ‘Wild Boar’ trained by Yandex A massive data leak reveals the role of artificial intelligence in Internet surveillance and suppressing protest in Russia — ...
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A ‘Wild Boar’ trained by Yandex A massive data leak reveals the role of ...
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Yandex’s sale of media assets to VK includes yandex.ru homepage: Russian search giant Yandex has finalized the sale of its two flagship media properties to local ...
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Yandex’s sale of media assets to VK includes yandex.ru homepage
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Hackers bring gridlock to capital city by sending hundreds of cabs to fake fares: Russia faced another cyber-attack yesterday after its largest taxi service ...
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Hackers bring gridlock to capital city by sending hundreds of cabs to fake ...
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Russia's Yandex head steps down two weeks early: Elena Bunina is stepping down as chief executive of Yandex LLC, Russia's biggest technology company ...
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Russia's Yandex head steps down two weeks early
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Jacob Rees-Mogg to cut his financial links to Russian propaganda search engine: The Business Secretary Mr Rees-Mogg and the recently appointed Trade Minister ...
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Jacob Rees-Mogg to cut his financial links to Russian propaganda search ...
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For Russian tech firms, Putin’s crackdown ended their global ambitions: An onslaught of laws, regulations and back-channel demands the Kremlin imposed now has ...
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For Russian tech firms, Putin’s crackdown ended their global ambitions
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Russian tech giant Yandex's boardroom is fractured by Ukraine war: Yandex, the "Google of Russia," is stumbling into an uncertain future as insiders try to ...
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Russian tech giant Yandex's boardroom is fractured by Ukraine war
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Delivery robots with Russian ties pulled from 2 US campuses: Two U.S. university campuses are losing their food-delivery robots for now because of Russia's ...
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Delivery robots with Russian ties pulled from 2 US campuses
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Hackers annoy cab drivers in Moscow: There was a small traffic chaos in the Russian capital after a hacker attack on the cab calling service of the Russian ...
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Hackers annoy cab drivers in Moscow
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Hackers Bring Gridlock To Moscow, Send Hundreds Of Yandex Taxis To Same Pickup Address
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Hackers Bring Gridlock To Moscow, Send Hundreds Of Yandex Taxis To Same ...
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Russia's anti-monopoly service approves Yandex-VK internet deal: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) on Tuesday granted ...
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Russia's anti-monopoly service approves Yandex-VK internet deal
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Takeover by VK: Russian search engine Yandex sells its news portal - Golem.de: After allegations of disinformation in the Ukraine war, Yandex is withdrawing from ...
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Takeover by VK: Russian search engine Yandex sells its news portal - Golem ...
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Yandex Buys Uber Out of Food Delivery Partnership in $1Bln Deal: Yandex and Uber first merged their ride-hailing operations in Russia in 2018.
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Yandex Buys Uber Out of Food Delivery Partnership in $1Bln Deal