Yandex is the government approved search engine in Russia, which is impossible without the state exerting control over it. I wouldn't pay much attention to divestment, it's not how any of that works.

For instance here you can learn that Yandex NV is fully controlled by a group of Russian investors: https://www.rbc.ru/business/06/03/2024/65e7a0f29a7947609ea39...

The government's where the offices of a software company are physically located exert control over them. To follow this logic to its end and apply it even handedly results in nation based NIH syndrome surely?

You are talking about an entity whose ownership is 99.8% Russian nationals and state companies; whose employees for the most part are Russian nationals, whose main market is Russia and with very little tangible assets that can be arrested in the Netherlands. The only reason for this "divestment" is sanctions evasion.

you clearly don't know anything about nebius

They have a lot of hardware in e.g. Finland. I don't think they provide GPU access to the russian companies, feel free to correct me

We were talking search engines here, but interesting indeed! What's the name of Neibus CEO?

Arkady Volozh, obviously

Some clarification. Since 2024 Yandex NV split into Nebius (NL-registred NASDAQ-listed company, no longer a search engine) and russian-based Yandex. The latter is fully controlled by russian investors.

I wouldn’t trust a divorce where one party still provides for the other.

You don't "trust" a divorce is alimony was part of the settlement?

Yep, when the party paying can decide not to pay and there are no teeth to extract payment, that gives immense power to the payer.

At least in my area, there are legal avenues if alimony goes unpaid. Assets can be seized to pay off late payments and wages can be garnished.

Its a different story if the payer truly can't afford to pay the alimony, but at that point they wouldn't have the immense power you are concerned with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42349797 (11 months ago)

https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-1000-companies-have-cur...

You pays your money, you takes your choice.

You are mistaken to think that zealots can be reasoned with. They have been conditioned to react upon anything “Russia” like a Pavlovian cue, a command of the trained animal. They are a herd that moves as a herd, based on cues of lead animals. No amount of proof or evidence will ever dissuade them from a position that the herd is moving in. They cannot reason on their own and lack the courage to separate, let alone say something that the herd disapproves of, lest they be expelled from the herd and ganged up on.