[orbital-decay]

Long before the censorship, when they got plenty of leverage to meaningfully resist it, Yandex was one of the first companies supporting the "Safe Internet League", along with Vimpelcom and others. They were the first to run to Kremlin in an attempt to strike a deal to guarantee themselves a place under the sun in a brave new world, long before the first censorship laws were even discussed.

Yandex picked the sides long ago, and now they are paying for being on the wrong side of the history. They aren't just complicit in censorship somehow, they are the censors themselves.