YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database

Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by dotdi on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:35AM (#31083707)

True, but on the other hand, people outside of Russia can decide for themselves how to react to and treat companies from unfriendly countries.

You mention oligarchs - how can it be ruled out that Yandex is directly or indirectly, fully or partly owned, and even directed, by them?

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by app4soft on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:48AM (#31083901)

> people outside of Russia can decide for themselves how to react to and treat companies from unfriendly countries.

Since 2019 Yandex and the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia, ex-KGB) had reached an agreement where the company would provide the required data without handing over the encryption keys.[0]

Learn more about Russian war crimes & ongoing invasion of Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...

N.B. I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine. Here is my statement for HN:[1]

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex#Security

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395897

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by cies on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:13AM (#31084233)

How can I help specifically the people of the Donbas?

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by Nerwesta on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:24AM (#31084388)

Now ? I think it's too late, your question sounds bizarre, Russia is indeed helping them. But I guess there are quite a few pro-separatists NGOs out there. Not the ones aligned with Kiev though, so they are leaning pro-Russia.

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by cies on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:01PM (#31084954)

I also saw some news that Russia send them supplies. I feel they are the most oppressed people in this conflict.

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by myth_drannon on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:56AM (#31083987)

Well the CEO of Yandex resigned in protest and fled to Israel.

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by samhw on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:33AM (#31084524)

I have no dog in this hunt, but I just looked this up, and there's no indication he 'resigned in protest'. Their company news site says that he resigned after being sanctioned by the EU.[0] It appears heavily implied that he was forced to resign as a result of the sanctions – either directly (I'm not familiar with how EU sanctions work) or in that it made his position untenable.

[0] https://yandex.com/company/press_center/press_releases/2022/...

Edit: This report appears to bear out that the sanctions forced him to resign pretty-much-directly, as the company does business in Europe, and the sanctions prevent him from doing business in Europe: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/yandex-deputy-ceo...

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by myth_drannon on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:50AM (#31084772)

I was talking about the CEO Elena Bunina, not deputy CEO - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/yandex-ceo-rel...

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by samhw on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:21PM (#31088487)

Ah, fair enough, I’m sorry - for some reason only the deputy CEO’s firing came up when I searched about the CEO, so I assumed that was what you had meant. My bad. Please disregard my comment!

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by lotusmars on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:58AM (#31084918)

No support to the fact that she resigned in protest. Please don't spread this whitewashing of Yandex. Many Russian executives stepped down so not to be hit by sanctions. She was already scheduled to be replaced by Khudaverdyan and then invasion started.

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Re:YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database by myth_drannon on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @01:39PM (#31086258)

"On Sunday, an independent Russian media outlet called The Bell, which focuses on high-tech and startups, posted a screen capture of a message Bunina allegedly posted on an internal company forum. According to the post, whose veracity could not be verified, Bunina wrote: “I will not return: I cannot work in a country that is at war with its neighbors.”" - from Haaretz

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