Tag Archives: Russias

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex Founder Calls Russia’s War In Ukraine ‘Barbaric’  The New York Times Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex, Russia`s tech giant, faces a `brain drain`. Here`s why  WION Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Founder of Russia’s Google slams Putin’s ‘barbaric’ Ukraine war  POLITICO Europe Source link

A founder of Russia’s largest technology company condemned his country’s war in Ukraine on Thursday, a rare step among Russian tycoons caught between fear of Western sanctions and retribution at home. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is barbaric, and I am categorically against it,” Arkady Volozh, who until last year ran Yandex, often referred to as Russia’s Google, said in a statement. “I have to take my share of responsibility for the country’s actions,” he said, without… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia’s classified powerhouses face imminent delisting from U.S. …  AIM Group Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Nasdaq to Delist Russia’s Yandex, Other Tech Firms  The Moscow Times Source link

Last week, Russian Internet giant Yandex suffered a major source code leak when an unknown user (likely a former employee) published parts of the company’s internal repository online. The leaked code provides new insight into the inner workings of Russia’s largest search engine, which has faced growing criticism in recent years for cooperating with the Kremlin. Among other things, the breach confirmed that Yandex has censored image and video search results to prevent the Z symbol and… 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

Anti-Russia protest in Germany Yann Schreiber/AFP via Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ploy to use oil and gas exports as “a weapon of financial war” in its campaign to conquer Ukraine “is increasingly backfiring, threatening the core of Russia’s beleaguered economy and curtailing its geopolitical influence,” The Wall Street Journal reports. Putin had calculated that cutting off natural gas to Europe, and especially Germany, would leave Europe’s economy in shambles and its… Source link