Yandex has been accused of helping Putin suppress freedom of speech and enable mass surveillance
The co-founder of one of Russia’s biggest tech companies has launched a rare attack on Vladimir Putin’s “barbaric” invasion of Ukraine.
Arkady Volozh, who set up Yandex in 1997, has defied the Kremlin by making an unusually forthright statement to declare he is “against the war”.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is barbaric, and I am categorically against it,” said Mr Volozh, who has tried to distance himself from his Russian roots and now lives in Israel.
“I am horrified about the fate of people in Ukraine – many of them my personal friends and relatives – whose houses are being bombed every day.”