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What Arkady built for twenty years, Putin destroyed in twenty minutes," continued Lukačovič. "When Putin came to power, he invited the owners of Internet services to the carpet to scare them. At that time, Arkady grabbed a pen from him in the office and had it auctioned off," writes the owner of Seznam. "How Russia will degenerate into totalitarianism and Yandex will stand behind the FSB secret service and watch what it does otherwise someone will fall out of the window, who it refers to and so on, no one had any idea at the time.
An offer that cannot be refusedPresident Putin has been strengthening his rule over the Chinese American Phone Number List Russian Internet for a long time. Part of his activities is gaining influence in local companies such as Yandex or Vkontakte. The state also introduced other censorship systems, including the possibility of cutting off the country from the global Internet. ORM spying system connected to the infrastructure of providers and operators, which is very nicely described in the book The Red Web .
When Putin learned how important the Internet is as a medium, he basically bought all the important and big Russian Internet companies. With the exception of Yandex," the Seznam owner summarized. "Putin tried to nationalize Yandex twice, and Arkady always played it somehow. After the start of the war in Ukraine came half-nationalization. The yandex.ru domain is compulsorily redirected to Putin's news website, and Yandex is left with only the search engine and services around on the ya.ru domain .
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