Criticism of the war in Ukraine: EU removes Russian billionaire Volosh from sanctions list
spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/krieg-gegen-ukraine-eu-streicht-russischen-milliardaer-von-der-sanktionsliste-a-c6faf5be-5973-4a8b-9b24-495d3933363e
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Russian government approves Yandex NV deal to sell Russian assets - Vedomosti: A subcommittee of the Russian government commission for control over foreign ...
reuters.com/markets/deals/russian-government-approves-yandex-nv-deal-sell-russian-assets-vedomosti-2024-03-06/
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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 ...
kyivindependent.com/reuters-eu-to-remove-yandex-co-founder-from-russian-sanctions-list/
Yandex: Owner of 'Russia's Google' pulls out of home country: Yandex has previously been accused of hiding information about the Ukraine war from the Russian ...
bbc.com/news/business-68213191
Sanctions overturned: Arkady Volosh, Russia's IT entrepreneur, changes EU opinion
berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft-verantwortung/sanktionen-gekippt-russlands-maechtigster-it-unternehmer-stimmt-die-eu-um-li.2196010
Online gig work is feeding Russia’s surveillance machine
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The sale of Yandex is a weapon in the hands of the Kremlin
pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/2024/03/21/7447514/
⚡️The European Union has lifted sanctions against Arkadiy Volozh, the billionaire and co-founder of Russia's largest internet company, "Yandex ... Show more
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 ...
reuters.com/markets/deals/yandexs-restructuring-deal-expected-be-delayed-next-year-2023-12-25/
Russia: Is Google also involved in propaganda dissemination?: Propaganda in Russia is becoming increasingly drastic. Google is also contributing to its spread ...
t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/id_100272782/russland-ist-google-auch-an-der-propaganda-verbreitung-beteiligt-.html
Yandex Founder Calls for Sanctions Removal After Criticism of Russian Invasion: Yandex NV co-founder Arkady Volozh shouldn’t have been sanctioned after Vladimir ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-13/yandex-founder-calls-for-sanctions-removal-after-criticism-of-russian-invasion
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Putin's war with Ukraine has basically killed one of Russia's most successful tech firms
businessinsider.com/yandex-putin-war-ukraine-killed-russia-most-successful-tech-company-2023-11
How Russia’s liberal tech companies became foundation of Putin’s war effort: Fridays at Russian tech giant Yandex — the company once christened as ...
kyivindependent.com/how-russias-liberal-tech-companies-became-foundation-of-putins-war-effort/
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 ...
kyivpost.com/post/22695
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 ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-11/russia-s-uber-rival-probed-over-fears-of-data-sharing-with-fsb
Ukraine war: Yandex boss Arkady Volosh opposes Vladimir Putin - the EU still sanctions him
berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/yandex-chef-wolosch-stellt-sich-gegen-putin-von-der-eu-wird-er-trotzdem-sanktioniert-li.384493
Russia Revises Yandex Partition Terms Over Founder’s Anti-War Stance – Reports: The Russian government has lowered the payout offered in the restructuring of ...
themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/06/russia-revises-yandex-partition-terms-over-founders-anti-war-stance-reports-a82686
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 ...
ft.com/content/24c47ec1-dc7f-48a9-960e-7ad89cda8e1a
Paid articlePaidQuick 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
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 ...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-12/eu-set-to-lift-sanctions-on-two-russians-soon-but-not-yandex-s-volozh-yet
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 ...
tagesanzeiger.ch/der-kreml-greift-nach-dem-internet-giganten-yandex-226070341853
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
Yandex co-founder calls war ‘barbaric,’ signaling dismay in Russian elite: Arkady Volozh became the second prominent Russian business executive to publicly ...
washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/10/yandex-co-founder-calls-war-barbaric-signaling-dismay-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.
Finnish court rejects appeal by taxi firm's Russian owner: Finland's Data Protection Ombudsman earlier this month ordered taxi service Yango ...
yle.fi/a/74-20047998
UN Atomic Watchdog's Inspectors Still Don't Have Access To Rooftops At Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant
rferl.org/a/ukraine-zaporizhzhya-nuclear-rooftops-access-un-iaea/32512251.html
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 ...
themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/16/one-question-for-arkady-volozh-and-other-russian-billionaires-a82160
Yandex General Director Accused of Violating ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Ban: The general director of Russian tech giant Yandex is under investigation for violating the ...
themoscowtimes.com/2023/07/05/yandex-general-director-accused-of-violating-lgbt-propaganda-ban-a81745
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.
Yango prohibited from transferring personal data from Finland to Russia: Yango, the ride-hailing service by Russia’s Yandex, will be prohibited from transferring ...
helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/23998-yango-prohibited-from-transferring-personal-data-from-finland-to-russia.html
Kremlin wants to nationalise Yandex in preparation for presidential elections – ISW
pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/11/7415112/
‘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 ...
meduza.io/en/feature/2023/08/08/user-x-with-driver-y-traveled-from-point-a-to-point-b
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 ...
reuters.com/world/europe/chief-russias-yandex-faces-court-case-lgbt-propaganda-2023-07-05/
Bad billionaires A Putin-approved plan to sell Yandex’s Russian assets to a ‘consortium’ might collapse due to Western shareholders’ concerns about sanctions — ...
meduza.io/en/feature/2023/06/23/bad-billionaires
The Russian Internet at war — Meduza: After February 24, 2022, when many Western Internet companies withdrew from Russia, and the Russian state itself outlawed ...
meduza.io/en/episodes/2023/05/27/the-russian-internet-at-war
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 ...
technologyreview.com/2023/04/04/1070352/ukraine-war-russia-tech-industry-yandex-skolkovo/
Italy's Meloni vetoes Russian-linked takeover of tech company: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vetoed a takeover deal by a cloud services provider due to ...
reuters.com/markets/deals/italys-meloni-vetoes-takeover-deal-involving-russia-tech-giant-yandex-2023-03-23/
Yandex goes Dutch In an effort to divest itself of its Russian segment, the multinational IT giant is looking to create a ‘consortium’ of oligarch shareholders ...
meduza.io/en/feature/2023/05/10/yandex-goes-dutch
Nasdaq tells Yandex, other Russian firms of plan to delist stocks: The Nasdaq stock exchange has informed Russian Internet giant Yandex (YNDX ...
reuters.com/technology/nasdaq-delist-russian-internet-giant-yandex-company-2023-03-15/
Russia's economy in decline: 'Putin has no idea how to run a national economy'": Yandex was a modern IT corporation and Google competitor in Russia ...
t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/id_100120748/russischer-tech-gigant-putin-hat-keine-ahnung-wie-man-eine-volkswirtschaft-fuehrt-.html
Yandex: How the Russian search engine is censoring: If Russians want to look for something online, they often do so on Yandex. But some of their requests are ...
t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/aussenpolitik/id_100122668/yandex-wie-die-russische-suchmaschine-zensur-ausuebt.html
Inside The Obscure Russian Agency That Censors The Internet: An RFE/RL Investigation
rferl.org/a/russia-agency-internet-censorship/32262102.html
Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine: Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex ...
theregister.com/2023/01/30/russian_hackers_ddos_germany/
"Grandpa in his bunker": Search engine manipulates results on Putin: The largest Russian search engine Yandex influences which search terms show pictures of the ...
berliner-zeitung.de/news/opa-in-seinem-bunker-suchmaschine-yandex-manipuliert-ergebnisse-zu-wladimir-putin-li.313558
Yandex Censors Search So ‘Bald F*cker’ and ‘Bunker Grandad’ Won’t Show Putin: Report
thedailybeast.com/yandex-censors-search-so-bald-fcker-and-bunker-grandad-wont-show-putin-report
From Microsoft’s Tay to Yandex’s Alice, AI chatbots that went rogue: ChatGPT may have garnered an overwhelmingly positive response, but not all of its kind were ...
indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/biggest-ai-chatbot-fails-microsoft-tay-zo-google-bard-8447004/
Russian Tech Giant Yandex Sees 2022 Revenues Jump Despite Sanctions: Russian tech giant Yandex announced on Wednesday that its revenues climbed 46% last year ...
themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/15/russian-tech-giant-yandex-sees-2022-revenues-jump-despite-sanctions-a80240
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 ...
wired.com/story/yandex-arkady-volozh-russia-largest-tech-company/
A ‘Wild Boar’ trained by Yandex A massive data leak reveals the role of artificial intelligence in Internet surveillance and suppressing protest in Russia — ...
meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/10/a-wild-boar-trained-by-yandex
A window into Yandex’s censorship A source code leak reveals how Russia’s top tech company protects Putin’s image — Meduza
meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/01/a-window-into-yandex-s-censorship
Minister Dominic Johnson paid almost £500k by firm that invested in Russian search giant Yandex
inews.co.uk/news/minister-lord-dominic-johnson-paid-500000-firm-invested-russia-search-yandex-2087272
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 ...
insider.com/russian-tech-giant-wants-out-of-country-ukraine-war-rages-2022-11
Russia's Kudrin to leave Audit Chamber, opening door to Yandex move: Former Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday he would step down as head of ...
reuters.com/world/europe/russian-parliament-receives-documents-kudrin-leaving-audit-chamber-ria-2022-11-29/
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Putin confidant Kudrin goes to Russia's Google Yandex: Politician Alexei Kudrin is giving up his chief post at the General Accounting Office to join Russian ...
de.euronews.com/2022/12/05/russland-alexej-kudrin-wechselt-zu-yandex
Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland: 'Geopolitical environment' leads to spin-out of cloud, self-driving and other tech
theregister.com/2022/11/28/yandex_reorg_geopolitics/
Ukraine Says Nuclear Power Plants Are Back Online: Live Updates: After Russian missile strikes crippled much of Ukraine’s electricity grid ...
nytimes.com/live/2022/11/25/world/russia-ukraine-war-news/russias-strikes-triggered-emergency-protection-at-nuclear-plants-under-ukraines-control
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 ...
reuters.com/technology/russias-yandex-co-founder-volozh-pens-farewell-message-staff-2022-12-30/
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 ...
themoscowtimes.com/2022/12/05/kremlin-ally-kudrin-confirms-move-to-tech-giant-yandex-a79589
‘Russia’s Google’ wants to sell its Russian businesses and flee the country with its most promising tech
finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-google-wants-sell-russian-065741891.html
Kherson Evacuates Hospitals Amid Russian Bombardment: Live Updates: Russian shelling has killed at least 10 civilians and wounded dozens more over the past 24 ...
nytimes.com/live/2022/11/25/world/russia-ukraine-war-news/merkel-says-she-lacked-the-power-to-influence-putin-ahead-of-his-invasion-of-ukraine
Ukraine war: Russians kept in the dark by internet search: Why users of Russia's top search engine are unlikely to get to the truth about the war in Ukraine.
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Russia's IT pride in the war mills: The Russian IT group Yandex is suffering from punitive measures by the EU. To protect itself from sanctions ...
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Paid articlePaid Online Safety Bill to combat 'foreign interference' after pro-Putin search results revealed
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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 ...
inews.co.uk/news/politics/jacob-rees-mogg-financial-links-russian-search-engine-yandex-1896934
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 ...
theverge.com/2022/9/3/23335694/hackers-traffic-jam-russia-moscow-ride-hailing-app-yandex-taxi
Russia: Hacker Booked Yandex Taxi to Create Traffic Jam in Moscow—Protest for Ukraine?
techtimes.com/articles/280051/20220902/russia-hacker-booked-yandex-taxi-create-traffic-jam-moscow—protest-ukraine.htm
Russia’s Yandex sells media businesses to VK: State-controlled social media giant will take over tech group’s news aggregator, blogging platform and homepage
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Paid articlePaid Yandex: The rise and fall of Google's Russian competitor.: The once hip Russian start-up Yandex became a propaganda tool - and a de facto monopolist as a result ...
spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/yandex-aufstieg-und-fall-des-russischen-google-konkurrenten-a-1bb8e5b3-822a-4219-9adf-773b8184f845
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 ...
nytimes.com/2022/07/06/world/europe/ukraine-russia-yandex-google.html
Ex-Yandex Head Takes EU to Court Over Sanctions: Tigran Khudaverdyan argued he “does not support the actions of the Government of the Russian Federation.”
themoscowtimes.com/2022/08/02/ex-yandex-head-takes-eu-to-court-over-sanctions-a78480
Yandex Founder, CEO Resigns After Being Hit By EU Sanctions: The EU sanctioned Arkady Volozh over Yandex's removal of “content related to Russia's war of ...
themoscowtimes.com/2022/06/03/yandex-founder-ceo-resigns-after-being-hit-by-eu-sanctions-a77893
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CEO of Yandex, known as 'Russia's Google,' resigns after EU sanctions: Yandex CEO and cofounder Arkady Volozh said the EU sanctions against him were "misguided ...
businessinsider.com/yandex-ceo-google-russia-resigns-after-sanctions-2022-6
Putin promises to bolster Russia's IT security in face of cyber attacks: President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the number of cyber attacks on Russia by ...
reuters.com/world/europe/putin-warns-cyber-aggression-against-russia-promises-security-shakeup-2022-05-20/
Russian mapping service clears borders - because Putin wants to “take back” territories?
focus.de/politik/ausland/ukraine-krise/yandex-russischer-kartendienst-loescht-alle-grenzen-weil-putin-gebiete-zurueckholen-will_id_107955247.html
Data leak from a delivery service exposes addresses and employees of Putin's secret services
stern.de/digital/online/datenleck-eines-lieferdienstes-enttarnt-adressen-und-mitarbeiter-von-putins-geheimdiensten-31756012.html
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