"Arkady Yurievich Volozh is a Russian businessperson with business interests in
IT and technology. He is the founder and the CEO of Yandex. Yandex is the
largest Internet company in Russia, operating Russia's most popular search
engine.
Russian State-owned banks such as Sberbank and VTB are shareholders and
investors in Yandex.
In 2019, Yandex agreed to a restructuring that gave a “golden share” to a newly
formed Public Interest Foundation built to “defend the Russian Federation
interests”. Through the Public Interest Foundation, the Government of the
Russian Federation is able to have a veto over a defined list of issues, such as the
sale of material IP and the sale or transfer of Russian users’ personal data to
foreign companies, both of which are deemed to affect Russia’s “national
interest”.
Yandex is also responsible for promoting State media and narratives in
its search results, and deranking and removing content critical of the Kremlin,
such as content related to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
3.6.2022’
Volozh is a leading businessperson involved in economic sectors providing a
substantial source of revenue to the Government of the Russian Federation,
which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of
Ukraine. Furthermore, as founder and CEO of Yandex, he is supporting,
materially or financially, the Government of the Russian Federation and is
responsible for supporting actions or policies which undermine or threaten the
territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine."
This is to say nothing of other huge amount of federal funds, or the soft control exerted through politically connected billionaires which is actually one of the preferred mechanisms in both Russia, and the US. Us with our bigtech billionaires, in Russia with their Oligarchs.
On a daily basis, section 230 reminder threats are being used against BigTech to remind them that they still work for the Establishment political parties.
Here is a singular example, of which there are hundreds or more.
It’s not difficult to name shady, unlawful, unjust - you name it - behavior by the US government. It’s not difficult because to find any of it I can simply go to Google and in less than a second I’ll have a list of it all. Try that on Yandex or VKontakte. Good luck.
If you have no evidence or even circumstantial hints your comment is nothing more than a conspiracy theory.
In 2019, Yandex agreed to a restructuring that gave a “golden share” to a newly formed Public Interest Foundation built to “defend the Russian Federation interests”. Through the Public Interest Foundation, the Government of the Russian Federation is able to have a veto over a defined list of issues, such as the sale of material IP and the sale or transfer of Russian users’ personal data to foreign companies, both of which are deemed to affect Russia’s “national interest”.
Yandex is also responsible for promoting State media and narratives in its search results, and deranking and removing content critical of the Kremlin, such as content related to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
3.6.2022’
Volozh is a leading businessperson involved in economic sectors providing a substantial source of revenue to the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine. Furthermore, as founder and CEO of Yandex, he is supporting, materially or financially, the Government of the Russian Federation and is responsible for supporting actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine."
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