Yandex’s news aggregation service had been accused of blocking antiwar content, a move that the company defended as compliance with Russia’s increasingly draconian information laws. Volozh, who has lived in Israel since 2014, resigned his post as Yandex’s chief executive officer and left the company’s board last year after the European Union placed him under sanctions for “materially or financially” supporting the invasion.
“I have to take my share of responsibility for the country’s actions,” he said, without offering additional details. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is barbaric, and I am categorically against it,” Arkady Volozh, who until last year ran Yandex, often referred to as Russia’s Google, said in a statement. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated PressĪ founder of Russia’s largest technology company condemned his country’s war in Ukraine on Thursday, a rare step among Russian tycoons caught between fear of Western sanctions and retribution at home. Arkady Volozh, co-founder of search engine Yandex in Moscow in 2019.
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