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Fortune
Fortune
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Nicholas Gordon

Yandex, Russia's "Google", wants to flee the country

A Yandex delivery robot in front of Yandex's headquarters in Moscow

After Moscow invaded Ukraine, 'Russia's Google' has decided it can't stay in Russia.

Moscow-headquartered Yandex, the country's dominant search engine founded by two Russian entrepreneurs, is hoping to transfer its most promising new technologies overseas and ditch most of its Russian business to avoid the effects of Western sanctions imposed after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia to Ukraine.

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