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Nov 24 (Reuters) – An arbitration court in Moscow has upheld a 2-billion rouble ($33 million) fine against Google issued by Russia’s federal anti-monopoly service over the company’s decision to block some YouTube channels, the RIA Novosti news agency reported, citing a court decision. Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link

After Moscow invaded Ukraine, ‘Russia’s Google’ has decided it can’t stay in Russia. Moscow-headquartered Yandex, the country’s dominant search engine founded by two Russian entrepreneurs, is hoping to transfer its most promising new technologies overseas and ditch most of its Russian business to avoid the effects of Western sanctions imposed after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia to Ukraine. Under the plan, which the Financial Times reported on Thursday, Yandex… Source link

Nov 23 (Reuters) – A Russian court on Wednesday ordered Google (GOOGL.O) to reinstate the blocked YouTube channel of the State Duma, Russia’s parliament, the Duma said in a statement. Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link

Another squat in Amsterdam. Photo: DutchNews.nl A Russian oligarch who is included on the EU sanctions list has lost his bid to have squatters evicted from a property he owns in central Amsterdam because his assets have been frozen. The multi-million euro building on the Vossiusstraat, with a view over Vondelpark, was squatted in late October by a group saying they planned to live in it until the owner is allowed to do something with the property again. ‘They were building luxury apartments,… Source link

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin urged the Russian government on Wednesday to control car prices, as one industry head said Western sanctions could send annual sales crashing to below 1 million for the first time since records began. Auto sales have fallen over 60% so far this year, and may end up being less than a quarter of what they were a decade ago, according to Maxim Sokolov, head of Russia’s top carmaker Avtovaz. Some of this year’s drop is due to the pullout of foreign… Source link

What had been feared for Brittney Griner has come to pass far sooner than expected. The process has begun for the WNBA All-Star to be transferred to a Russian penal colony, her legal team in Russia announced Wednesday in Moscow, a move her camp has dreaded since her August conviction on drug charges. A long-shot appeal for Griner was denied on Oct. 25, opening the possibility she would be moved from her previous jail in Moscow to the significantly harsher conditions of a penal colony, where… Source link

Negotiations underway to unblock exports of fertilizer from Russia have made “important steps forward,” one of the main United Nations negotiators said on Thursday, while acknowledging that there was still a way to go. Russian grain and fertilizer exports continue to face issues over sanctions imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, despite two agreements signed on Jul. 22 that called for sanctions to spare agriculture-related products and grant safe passage for Ukrainian… Source link

Russia’s announcement that it is suspending its participation in a Black Sea grain export deal requires a strong international response from the United Nations and the Group of 20 (G20) major economies, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on October 29. “This is a completely transparent attempt by Russia to return to the threat of large-scale famine for Africa, for Asia,” Zelenskiy said in a video address, adding that Russia should be kicked out of the G20. “Why can a handful of… Source link

Russia’s announcement that it is suspending its participation in a Black Sea grain export deal requires a strong international response from the United Nations and the Group of 20 (G20) major economies, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on October 29. “This is a completely transparent attempt by Russia to return to the threat of large-scale famine for Africa, for Asia,” Zelenskiy said in a video address, adding that Russia should be kicked out of the G20. “Why can a handful of… Source link

The Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and the recently appointed Trade Minister, Dominic Johnson, are to offload their holdings in a firm that has strong financial links to a Kremlin propaganda machine, i can reveal. Mr Rees-Mogg and Mr Johnson are co-founders and shareholders in Somerset Capital Management LLP, which holds around 2.5 million shares in Russian internet giant Yandex. Known as Russia’s Google, Yandex pumps out pro-Kremlim search results on issues ranging from the war in… Source link