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The reconfiguring of Russia’s digital landscape in the wake of Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine continues to play out at a macro and micro level. Here’s a development on the latter front: Local tech giant Yandex has quietly removed national borders from its maps product. Users of Yandex’s maps app, which is popular in countries in the CIS region, can still see country names displayed — but lines depicting exact borders between nations are no longer visible. We understand the… Source link

The reconfiguring of Russia’s digital landscape in the wake of Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine continues to play out at a macro and micro level. Here’s a development on the latter front: Local tech giant Yandex has quietly removed national borders from its maps product. Users of Yandex’s maps app, which is popular in countries in the CIS region, can still see country names displayed — but lines depicting exact borders between countries like Ukraine and Russia are no longer visible. We… Source link

Welcome to The Long View—where we peruse the news of the week and strip it to the essentials. Let’s work out what really matters. This week: Verizon fined for allegedly spreading disease, Bolt Financial repeats the mistakes of the past, and the founder of Yandex resigns. 1. NY AG vs. VZ: FIGHT! First up this week: Another summer, another outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York. The state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, has some harsh words to say about the maintenance record of… Source link

This is also not the first time Google has shut down an office in Moscow. In 2014, it moved its engineers out of the city to protest new data protection rules. But in recent years, the stakes have become higher. In September 2021, Russian authorities visited the home of one of Google’s top executives, telling her to delete an app linked to activist Alexei Navalny from the Google Play Store or face prison. When Google put the executive up in a hotel under a different name, the same agents… Source link

The Russian rouble firmed past 62 to the dollar in Moscow trade on Friday while shares in internet giant Yandex fell sharply after EU countries imposed new sanctions against Russia. EU countries have agreed their sixth package of sanctions against Russia over what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, including an import ban on all Russian seaborne crude oil and petroleum products in six to eight months. The rouble firmed despite the negative… Source link

Woman holds Russian Roubles in front of U.S. Dollar banknotes in this illustration taken May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register June 3 (Reuters) – The Russian rouble firmed past 62 to the dollar in Moscow trade on Friday while shares in internet giant Yandex (YNDX.O) fell sharply after EU countries imposed new sanctions against Russia. EU countries have agreed their sixth package of sanctions against Russia over what it calls… Source link

Russian companies have been plunged into a technological crisis by western sanctions that have created severe bottlenecks in the supply of semiconductors, electrical equipment and the hardware needed to power the nation’s data centres. Most of the world’s largest chip manufacturers, including Intel, Samsung, TSMC and Qualcomm, have halted business to Russia entirely after the US, UK and Europe imposed export controls on products using chips made or designed in the US or Europe…. Source link

The Yandex Group signed an agreement with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) — a federal-level executive governmental organization that controls the execution of the antitrust laws — and a consortium of Russian Internet companies, in connection with an antitrust lawsuit settlement against the search engine. The consortium includes … Source link

The Google logo displayed on a smartphone screen. Kirill Kudryavtsev | AFP | Getty Images Google’s Russian subsidiary plans to file for bankruptcy after authorities seized its bank account, making it impossible to pay staff and vendors, but free services including search and YouTube will keep operating, a Google spokesperson said on Wednesday. The Alphabet unit has been under pressure in Russia for months for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal and for restricting access to some… Source link

Google’s Russian subsidiary will file for bankruptcy, according to a report from Reuters, with the company stating it can no longer keep the branch. The Russian branch reported making 134.3 billion roubles (about $2.086 billion USD) in Russia in 2021 and employed over 100 workers. “The Russian authorities’ seizure of Google Russia’s bank account has made it untenable for our Russia office to function, including employing and paying Russia-based employees, paying suppliers and… Source link