Tag Archives: Putin

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Putin says Yandex co-founder entitled to his opinion following anti-war outburst  Devdiscourse Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]‘The only people who are really fighting Putin right now are Ukrainians’ . An interview with media manager…  Новая газета. Европа Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia Censors Web So ‘Bald F*cker’ Search Won’t Show Putin  The Daily Beast Source link

Russia’s most popular search engine has installed software that blocks images of President Putin when users enter insulting or obscene words and phrases as the Kremlin seeks to stamp out dissent over the war in Ukraine. Yandex, which is often called Russia’s Google, has ensured that pictures of the president are no longer returned by searches for “khulyo,” which translates as “f***ing d***head”. Since 2014 the word has been commonly used in Ukraine to describe Putin. Other terms… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex blocks obscene searches for Putin | World  The Times Source link

Russia’s biggest search engine secretly put blocks in its code to stop images of Vladimir Putin showing up in the results of potentially embarrassing searches, according to a report, with Nazi iconography also allegedly scrubbed out of the results of queries for the “Z” symbol signifying support for the war in Ukraine. Last week, fragments of the source code for Yandex—sometimes likened to “Russia’s Google”—were leaked online. Experts have been poring over the code ever since… Source link

Getty Russia’s biggest search engine secretly put blocks in its code to stop images of Vladimir Putin showing up in the results of potentially embarrassing searches, according to a report, with Nazi iconography also allegedly scrubbed out of the results of queries for the “Z” symbol signifying support for the war in Ukraine. Last week, fragments of the source code for Yandex—sometimes likened to “Russia’s Google”—were leaked online. Experts have been poring over the code ever… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia’s Google, Yandex, Fixes Results So ‘Bald Fucker’ and ‘Bunker Grandad’ Reportedly Won’t Show Putin  Yahoo News Source link

Russian army officers delivered a damning verdict on Vladimir Putin‘s war in Ukraine, as they voted to down arms and go home in a secret poll. Putin’s army has been involved in fierce fighting in the Donbas, as it tries to secure control over the entire resource rich region. On Friday Russia‘s Ministry of Defence claimed the city of Soledar had fallen to the Kremlin’s troops and that the noose was tightening on Bakhmut. Kyiv insisted that the city was still not fully under Russian control and… Source link

Ten days after Yandex confirmed a review of its operations that include moving IP out of Russia and selling much of the remainder locals, it has hired an ally of President Vladimir Putin to help out with the restructure. Alexei Kudrin, described as a longtime Putin ally and who resigned as head of Russia’s Audit Chamber last week, has confirmed that he will be joining Yandex to advise on corporate development. Kudrin was appointed as finance minister in 2000 when Putin started his first… Source link