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Russian search engines remove “extremist” Instagram, Facebook, independent media results

April 19, 2022

Two of Russia’s largest search engines have removed results for Facebook, Instagram and several independent news websites after authorities blocked or declared them “extremist.” Meduza, Mediazona, Deutsche Welle, Current Time, Kholod, The Insider and other news outlets that have been providing independent coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were also removed from search results. Yandex …

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Anti-monopoly authority open case against Yandex for abusing search dominance

April 16, 2021

Russia’s competition watchdog has launched a formal probe into Yandex, alleging the country’s largest technology company could be abusing its dominant position in the search market to promote its own services at the expense of competitors. The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) said Tuesday that Yandex has failed to comply with a previous warning that it must stop favoring …

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Reuters: Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts

June 29, 2019

Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018, deploying a rare type of malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts, four people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The malware, called Regin, is known to be used by the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance of …

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Facebook and Google’s Russian rivals: Why are they winning?

February 20, 2019

In March 2018, the users or Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, noticed a peculiar feature: if you typed “govno” – Russian for “sh*t” – in the Yandex.Maps search (who does that?!) the first address Yandex gives you is Moscow, Balchug Street, 7 – the headquarters of Google Inc. in Russia. Hours later Yandex explained …

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“Exceptional performance” for Yandex in 2018: Revenues reached $1.84 billion, net income soared 44%

March 5, 2019

This past Friday Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search company, announced its unaudited financial results for Q4 2018 and FY 2018. The last quarter of the year saw the company’s revenues reach 38.8 billion rubles ($559.1 million), up 39% from Q4 2017, while its adjusted net income jumped to 6.9 billion rubles ($100 million), up 32% …

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Google agrees with Russian authorities to filter censored content

February 11, 2019

Google has “established a constructive dialogue” with Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, to delete from search results websites that are banned in Russia, the Russian media reported, citing the Roskomnadzor press office. While refusing to connect to Federal State Information System (FGIS), Roskomnadzor’s registry of banned sites, the US company began deleting blacklisted links …

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Google faces fine for refusing to censor search results in Russia

December 4, 2018

On November 26 Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, announced administrative charges against Google  for failing to comply with a law that requires online search engines to purge any hyperlinks to materials that are banned in Russia. Google has also refused to connect to the federal information system where these websites are listed. For violating …

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With 27 offices worldwide, Yandex demonstrated strong growth in Q3 2018

October 31, 2018

Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant, announced its quarterly earnings  yesterday, demonstrating an impressive growth. Thus, in Q3 2018, the company’s revenues jumped to 32.6 billion rubles ($496.6 million), up 39% compared with Q3 2017, while its net income reached 4.8 billion ($72.7 million) a whopping 459% increase year-on-year (net income margin: 14.6%; adjusted net income 6.1 …

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Yandex caves to Russia’s federal censor in dispute over Internet piracy

August 30, 2018

Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, threatened to block Yandex’s video service, following an August 24 verdict by the Moscow City Court ordering the website to remove all hyperlinks to pirated content from its search results. Earlier this month, several television stations filed lawsuits against Yandex, where links to pirated copies of their content …

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Yandex consolidates leadership on Russian search market

August 1, 2018

Yandex, the Russian search giant, has maintained its leadership on the domestic Internet market, with a 55% market share on all devices in July 2018, up 1 percentage point in one year. The numbers have just been published by Yandex, whose tool Yandex.Radar monitors search market share and browser trends in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey. …

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Age, sex and online behavior in Russia

March 31, 2018

Over 71 million people over 18 years-old use the Internet in Russia, and the daily audience of Yandex’s Advertising Network serves about 60 million users. Every day visitors to sites in the Yandex Advertising Network see about 4.3 billion ads, 8 millions of which convert. Yandex, the number one search engine in Russia, has studied …

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Rosy 2017: Increased market share, revenues and profit for Yandex

February 16, 2018

Yesterday Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant, announced its financial results for the Q4 and FY 2017. The last quarter of the year saw the company’s revenues reach 27.9 billion rubles ($483.7 million), up 26% from Q4 2016, while its adjusted net income jumped to 5.2 billion rubles ($91.1 million), up 62% year-on-year. (The inflation rate in …

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