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Yandex is incorporated in the Netherlands and the founders live in Israel.

I think they will create several spin-off open source companies (like ClickHouse Inc.) outside Russia to continue doing B2B business with the outside world.



They did some time ago actually.

Like https://nebius.com/about for example.

Not to mention that Yandex been operation in countries outside of Russia under different name from the beginning (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yango_(ride_sharing))


Unforytunately, only one founder, Arkady Volozh, is still alive. Ilya Segalovich has died 10 years ago.


It doesn't matter where the company is incorporated -- when Kremlin wants the access to the data Yandex cannot say no. One cannot operate in Russia and not play by Kremlin rules, especially media companies.




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