[fuoqi]

How about Arkady Volozh? He got sanctioned not because he has "direct ties to and props up Putin", but because Yandex operates in Russia and has to follow its rules.

Just look at the length of the list with sanctioned persons. Are you seriously saying that all of them have "direct ties to and prop up Putin"?

[lostmsu]

Yandex has started filtering out independent news about the war while he still was the CEO. He wouldn't have been sanctioned if he resigned when Yandex received that request.

[fuoqi]

1) You are moving the goalpost compared to GP.

2) Yandex was understandably cautious in the light of the new Russian laws, which effectively put a censorship net on coverage of the war.

3) Are you saying that Volozh should have followed the unspoken Western rules in operation of a business in Russia (read: he should've acted to please the West as much as he can, anticipating its demands) or risk loosing access to all his property in the West without any warning? And you think the Chinese will not see it as a potential risk?

[lostmsu]

I think it is pretty clear that once your money are out of China you'd have a choice if shit hits the fan: lose the money in the West and stay in 3rd world or another fascist state (that China will turn into if not there yet), or lose some money in China and relinquish control of involved companies, but be free in the West.

[andsoitis]

> How about Arkady Volozh?

He was sanctioned by the EU, no the US.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Volozh

2) https://www.reuters.com/technology/yandex-ceo-volozh-resigns...