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All episodes Subscribe iTunes RSS feed Google Podcasts Spotify Castbox Yandex.Music Yandex’s restructuring and the future of Kremlin tech control 00:0027:30 After a year and a half of negotiations, Yandex founder Arkady Volozh and the company’s foreign shareholders have reached a deal to part ways with Yandex’s Russian assets. The Russian IT giant’s Netherlands-based parent company announced Monday, February 5, that it will sell a large portion of its operations to a consortium of Russian… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]EU’s Google Feud Aids Russian Rival Blamed for Kremlin Lies  Bloomberg Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yango Taxi App Investigated Over Possible Data Mining by Kremlin …  Kyiv Post Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]ISW: Kremlin likely to nationalize Russian internet giant Yandex to …  Euromaidan Press Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Wagner Head Provoking ‘Open War’ With Kremlin Forces: Ex-Russian Commander  Newsweek Source link

The Kremlin is busy developing a new strategy to deal with the unprecedented recent wave of emigration that has seen hundreds of thousands of people decide to leave Russia.  In particular, the Kremlin has been enraged by statements from famous Russian actors and comedians using the freedom of exile to speak out against the war. The issue came to a head earlier this month when actor Artur Smolyaninov condemned the war in an emotional interview with Novaya… Source link

As Vladimir Putin pushes his war in Ukraine into its second year, the deepening militarization of Russia’s economy is fueling fears among the country’s business elite that the squeeze on their companies is only just beginning. The government is already considering “one-time” taxes on some big firms to help boost revenues reduced by the tightening grip of sanctions and other restrictions… Source link

In a rare show of defiance toward the federal government in Moscow, regional politicians in Tatarstan on Thursday rejected a set of amendments to its constitution that would have, among other measures, demoted the republic’s leader from “president” to “head” as the Kremlin continues its attempt to rein in Russia’s regions.   While at one point 13 Russian regions called their elected heads “presidents,” a campaign of rigorous centralization fought by the… Source link

The Kremlin on Tuesday accused the United Kingdom of “directing and coordinating” the September explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. “Our intelligence services have data indicating that British military specialists were directing and coordinating the attack,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists. “There is evidence that Britain is involved in sabotage, in a terrorist attack on vital energy infrastructure, not Russian, but international.”  Peskov did not… Source link

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Laura Cross-country Ski and Biathlon Center at the 2014 Sochi Winter Paralympic Games March 15, 2014. REUTERS/Michael Klimentyev/RIA Novosti The only thing stopping Nord Stream 1 gas flows are Western sanctions, the Kremlin said ahead of the three-day shutdown. “There are guarantees that, apart from technological problems caused by sanctions, nothing hinders the supplies,” a spokesperson said. Europe has still been preparing for a total shutoff of… Source link