Billionaire, co-founder and former CEO of IT giant Yandex Arkady Volozh has condemned the invasion of Ukraine, following retaliation against his first earlier removal from the war of Russia, the country where he built the empire. “I am categorically against the barbarian invasion of Ukraine,” he wrote in a statement re-released by The Bell newsletter, in which he expressed his horror at the fact that “Ukrainian homes are bombed every day”.
In addition to the search engine, Yandex has an R&D department in which hundreds of the best Russian graduates are recruited, cooperates with the best IT departments of universities and invests in early childhood education. After the outbreak of war, thousands of company employees left Russia. “I realize that I also have responsibility for the actions of my country”, admitted Volozh, 59 years old and who in recent days identified himself, on his website, as an “entrepreneur of the Israeli technological sector born in Kazakhstan”, who is “living in Israel” since 2015, not to mention Russia.
Last year, he resigned from Yandex after being hit with European sanctions over the company’s role in “promoting state media and narratives in its search engine” and for removing “content related to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine”. . “There were many reasons to justify my silence. The timing of my speech can be discussed, but not its content. I am against war», the attempt to correct one’s mistakes in pro-Putin propaganda.
Source: IL Tempo
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