ellynix

Oh, please! Don't assume I'm brainwashed zombie living in Orwell's 1984 and you're opening my eyes. I can tell more stories about crimes of russian authorities, corruption and general living in country where human rights are ignored more than you would want to listen.

But still I insist on being reasonable, do not invent imaginary problems in place of the hundreds of real ones and do not paint everything in black-and-white.

Anyway, it's good that you're so concerned about russian authorities crimes.

>the whole point of having a sensible discussion is to actually draw conclusions, challenge them and reassess.

You know, any form of conspiracy theory is a mind trap (because it doesn't satisfy falsifiability criterion) and allows to draw any conclusions that will suffice a need for endless discussion. Are there any arguments that will convince you not all russian companies are under KGB/mafia/Putin control?

I apologize for using the wrong words. I meant situation around uncontrolled corruption in every aspect of russian citizen's life.

Please, would you be so intelligent not to state things of which you are not sure?

I'm russian and Yandex employee since 2008. There's a lot of smart people doing cool things because they like to. That's how Yandex doing it's business. Some of yandexers openly considered with government influence over big (mostly petroleum) companies, some prefer to keep their liberal views in silence. I'm sure many employees will quit Yandex as soon as it would be involved in cooperation with KGB.

How do you know for sure Yandex have protection of KGB? Is it your imagination and tendency to generalize russian political mess over big IT company? Or you know the facts (some Yandex insides, for example)?