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'Russia's Google' owner pulls out of home country

The firm has previously been accused of hiding information about the Ukraine war from the Russian public.

"This is exactly what we wanted to achieve a few years ago when Yandex was under threat of being taken over by Western IT giants," said Anton Gorelkin, deputy head of the Russian parliament's committee on information policy. Mr Volozh is seeking a European Union court to remove sanctions as he says he was never close to the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Even though Yandex presents itself as independent of the authorities, experiments by BBC Monitoring in 2022 showed that its search results failed to report Russian atrocities in Ukrainian city of Bucha.

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