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How do you suppose they stay independent from the tyranny of Russia while operating in Russia?
Yandex now completely taken over by Russia - Putin's close ally, Alexei Kudrin, is pretty much taking over the helm. >

"alright we tried to do the free and good society thing and it didn't work. Back the old ways" >

Except that they didn't, they sold out to the government quite quickly and became a part of the government propaganda on the internet side, blocking news and search results from "unfavorable" media outlets