To try to figure out what they know on the other hand, since yesterday I have been following the war also on Yandex. Yandex is the Google of the Russians. It was founded twenty-five years ago and since 2011 it has also been listed on the New York Stock Exchange, which for the past few days has made it fearful of bankruptcy due to sanctions. Like Google, it’s not just a search engine – it’s also a web browser, has maps, news, and several other services.
War seen from the other side
The case of Yandex, the Russian Google that could go bankrupt due to US sanctions
by Emanuele Capone
It is the most viewed site in Russia. The war in Ukraine seen from here is a whole other world: it is only a “military operation”, in the meantime. Yesterday, the day of the bombing of the Mariupol children’s hospital, the news of the day was the announcement of the preparation of provocations by the Ukrainian nationalists: “Chemical weapons, with 80 tons of ammonia”. Speaking of the closure of McDonald’s and Coca Cola in Russia, the head of Chechnya said: “It was time, the dominance of Americans who destroy our bodies with ready-to-eat foods ends”. The protests in the square are overturned: “The students of the University of Moscow ask Zelensky to put an end to the conflict”.
The guide
Less data, more privacy: here are the alternative search engines to Google
by Carlo Lavalle
But the thirteen arrested in St. Petersburg will be expelled from the university. In this tragic parallel world yesterday the sad story of Andrey Danilko stood out. He is a Ukrainian singer who is the drag queen Verka Serduchka on stage; he had a dazzling success in 2007 when he came second at Eurovision with a dance song whose refrain said “Lasha tumbay, whipped cream”. A few days ago you announced that from February 24 you will sing it saying instead “Goodbye Russia”. “An abomination, obscene, scandalous, hypocritical”, they wrote to him, “continues to earn fabulous money in Russia, secretly coming to the private parties of the rich.” And of course: “He is an accomplice of the Nazis”. This says the most viewed website in Russia.
