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so sad to hear about his suicide from a 6th story hospital window. tragic, really.
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. >

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

That's every thread about Russia. Bunch of tired window jokes and redditors beating dead horses. >


and redditors beating dead horses

How is it a dead horse if it's still actively occurring? >

OP is upset at redditors for pointing out Putin is recycling his boring stale plot. 
When did Putin become so predictable? Was he always like this? It seems odd we used to think he was some sort of genius tyrant. >

Rusky government preparing to go hard on the information front? Maybe for the massive loses to come in the donetsk front? Can't see why a full takeover from now would have been different VS months before.. >

sucks to hear yandex is the goat at reverse image search and every year google gets shittier what with it being so personalized and openly censored >

Does anyone know of any other reverse image search that work better then Google? >

TinyEye from Canada works great >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 66%. (I'm a bot)


MOSCOW, Dec 30 - The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, Arkady Volozh, said goodbye in an internal message to staff on Friday ahead of a corporate restructuring that could see ownership of many of the firm's core services change hands.
"As you know, I haven't really been involved in Yandex's Russian business for some time, but this year I had to step down from the company completely," Volozh said in the message, seen by Reuters.
Yandex's Dutch-registered holding company last month said it planned to divest ownership and control of most of Yandex Group, including its main revenue-generating businesses, a move that could lead to enhanced Kremlin influence over some of Russia's backbone internet services.


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He wanted to say good-bye before he fell out that window. >

"Bye, everyone! I only have a narrow "window of opportunity" to leave before the end of the year. So long! I hate to "drop" this on you. It will be a "long fall" for me when I step down." >

"Keep pushing forward!" >

“It panes me to have to say this..” >

Shattered by this news. >

"Stepping down from this job will leave me a broken man" >

The first step is alway the most difficult. Sometimes it helps to have a little help from your friends. After that the rest is easy! >

"Just a little help from my friends" "Back in the USSR" - "It's easy!" >

WINDOW WINDOW WINDOW SHOT THREE TIMES BACK OF HEAD FALLING FROM WINDOW WINDOW DESK TOO CLOSE TO WINDOW HE TRIPPED AND FELL WINDOW WINDOW WINDOW >

Oh look, it's /u/KimCureAll's original comment with the same level of subtlety and humour. >

I really can't count the number of people I've inspired! LOL >

Someone told you that you were funny. That was a cruel thing to do. >

More entrepreneurial brains leaving Russia. >

Here's defenestration in Russian if you want to do any searching -- it's a nice simple cognate: дефенестрация >

I support the Ukraine and I see Russia as the invader. Even if it's russian, I've used Yandex quite a bit, because it's somehow a good alternative for all content, which has been deleted from Google-Search because of copyright, etc. 
What is the next good alternative, if you like to use a search engine, without companies and individuals being able to have search results removed? Do they exist? >

Duckduckgo >

I second duckduckgo, especially if you use a VPN since some search engines will make you complete captchas. >

He must have noticed how they moved his desk next to the window, and keep offering him tea. >

Yandex has always been the regime's bitch, I have no sympathy. >

That is some real proactive management if I ever saw it.
This guy is so capable that he already picked the window he's going to be falling out of soon. >

They say that search engines are the ‘windows’ to the Internet >

Tying up loose ends before he falls out of a window into a barrel of Polonium with 9 "self-inflicted" bullets in his head.