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5/6, and now 6/7 parent comments in this thread contain the word “window”.
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 >

How do you suppose they stay independent from the tyranny of Russia while operating in Russia? >

I feel bad for Yandex, they weren't a bad business but it's hard to operate in the global market when their core audience is in a backsliding country. They had a thriving business in Ukraine until the Crimea situation.