It’s not a stretch to say that Yandex has a claim to be Russia’s most successful and innovative company. Even Google’s founders were interested in buying it at one time. The company strove to preserve its independence for 25 years, but now that part of its story seems to have reached its end. The Kremlin has long courted the company and soon, in place of founder Arkady Volozh, Yandex will have an entirely new, Kremlin-approved leadership and ownership team. The real beneficiaries of…
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