[slaw]

I use Yandex sometimes for the same reasons, it is like Google from 2010, image search still works and old personal websites are still indexed. Is Yandex still Russian company or is it detached from Russia like Jetbrains and Telegram?

[itwillnotbeasy]

They never released any official statements condemning the war or leaving russia, none of their services were shut down there, and they still actively hiring new people in russia. Yandex services is also widely known for spreading pro-war propaganda, disinformation and fakes while censoring opposition media: https://meduza.io/feature/2023/01/30/yandeks-blokiroval-izob...,

https://meduza.io/news/2022/03/01/yandeks-segodnya-klyuchevo...

[smsm42]

Yandex used to pretend they are a global company (even had an office in Silicon Valley) but in 2022 this came to an end, as you cannot run business in both Russia and civilized world at the same time. So, Yandex is now Russian and thus controlled by the same thugs that control everything else there.

[ROTMetro]

Yandex had it's parent company which was headquartered in the Netherlands removed from operations and instead a new company headed by Aleksei Kudrin, a longtime confidant of President Vladimir Putin was put in charge.

[slaw]

> Volozh plans to separate the business of unmanned vehicles into a separate structure and develop it in Europe. The rest of Yandex will remain in Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Kudrin