Showing posts with label Yandex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yandex. Show all posts

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Co-founder of Russian Tech Giant Yandex Condemns ‘Barbaric’ War

THE GUARDIAN: Arkady Volozh, who lives in Israel, offers some of strongest criticism yet by a prominent Russian business figure

Arkady Volozh said he is ‘horrified about the fate of people in Ukraine’. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

The co-founder of Russia’s biggest internet firm has condemned Moscow’s “barbaric” invasion of Ukraine, offering some of the strongest criticism to date by a prominent Russian business figure of the Kremlin’s military actions.

Arkady Volozh, who co-founded Yandex in Russia in 1997, said: “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is barbaric, and I am categorically against it.”

In the statement, published on Thursday, he said: “I am horrified about the fate of people in Ukraine – many of them my personal friends and relatives – whose houses are being bombed every day.” » | Pjotr Sauer | Thursday, August 10, 2023

Thursday, April 07, 2022

Russia's Largest Search Engine Hides Info on Ukraine War, Says Former Head of News

Apr 7, 2022 • Former Head of News for Russia's largest search engine Yandex, Lev Gershenzon, is accusing the company of 'hiding' information about the war in Ukraine, and Gershenzon joins Morning Joe to discuss.