Reuters also notes that the lifting of sanctions against
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eports of the exclusion of Yandex co-founder and former CEO Arkady Volozh from the list of organizations and individuals subject to EU sanctions appeared in the media on February 21, 2024. The European Commission may make such a decision on March 15, 2024.
On August 10, 2023, Arkadiy Volozh spoke out against the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine. However, in September 2023, the EU countries delayed lifting sanctions against the businessman. The international news agency Reuters reported that this could happen in March 2024, citing some sources.
A number of Russian media brazil whatsapp number database outlets, picking up this information, referred not to Reuters, but to the Finnish publication STT, which also received the information from some sources. However, the editorial staff of ComNews could not find a single mention of Arkady Volozh and the lifting of sanctions against him on the portal of the Finnish publication. A ComNews correspondent sent a request to the editor-in-chief of the STT agency Minna Holopainen with a request to send a link to the material, if it was published. However, there was no response.
Volozh became possible after the Dutch company Yandex NV sold the Russian part of the business to a consortium of private investors in February 2024. In the summer of 2024, Yandex assets will finally be divided into Russian and international. Yandex NV will change its name and stop using Yandex brands. Arkady Volozh continues to have 8.5% of shares in this international company (which, by the way, has a data center in Finland).
Independent expert on IT and telecom markets Vadim Plesskiy believes that sanctions against Arkady Volozh may be lifted: "Arkady Volozh has consistently done what the European Union expected (and expects) from all Russian businessmen. He resigned as CEO of a Russian company. The parent company of Yandex became European (registered in the Netherlands), and the business between the European Yandex and the Russian one was divided. A significant portion of key employees were relocated to Europe and the USA."
Leading analyst of Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin is sure that the story about lifting sanctions may well be true: "Arkady Volozh simply paid money in one form or another. The approximate amount is known - about 200 million rubles. But there is something to take from him besides money. This is Russian user data. Therefore, sanctions will be lifted from him. I think that this is absolutely true. But at the same time, he has no reason to pay Finnish publications if he already has to pay for the lifting of sanctions."
TelecomDaily CEO Denis Kuskov also believes that it made no sense for Arkady Volozh to make a paid order for Finnish media: "A data center located in Finland is not an enterprise that greatly influences life and has some political and economic weight. Therefore, I doubt that the article could have been paid for by the entrepreneur. And he will get out from under the sanctions, it was not for nothing that he did a huge job for this. Recent events indicate that Arkady Volozh has distanced himself from the situation with the previous company and wants to promote business outside of Russia."
On August 10, 2023, Arkadiy Volozh spoke out against the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine. However, in September 2023, the EU countries delayed lifting sanctions against the businessman. The international news agency Reuters reported that this could happen in March 2024, citing some sources.
A number of Russian media brazil whatsapp number database outlets, picking up this information, referred not to Reuters, but to the Finnish publication STT, which also received the information from some sources. However, the editorial staff of ComNews could not find a single mention of Arkady Volozh and the lifting of sanctions against him on the portal of the Finnish publication. A ComNews correspondent sent a request to the editor-in-chief of the STT agency Minna Holopainen with a request to send a link to the material, if it was published. However, there was no response.
Volozh became possible after the Dutch company Yandex NV sold the Russian part of the business to a consortium of private investors in February 2024. In the summer of 2024, Yandex assets will finally be divided into Russian and international. Yandex NV will change its name and stop using Yandex brands. Arkady Volozh continues to have 8.5% of shares in this international company (which, by the way, has a data center in Finland).
Independent expert on IT and telecom markets Vadim Plesskiy believes that sanctions against Arkady Volozh may be lifted: "Arkady Volozh has consistently done what the European Union expected (and expects) from all Russian businessmen. He resigned as CEO of a Russian company. The parent company of Yandex became European (registered in the Netherlands), and the business between the European Yandex and the Russian one was divided. A significant portion of key employees were relocated to Europe and the USA."
Leading analyst of Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin is sure that the story about lifting sanctions may well be true: "Arkady Volozh simply paid money in one form or another. The approximate amount is known - about 200 million rubles. But there is something to take from him besides money. This is Russian user data. Therefore, sanctions will be lifted from him. I think that this is absolutely true. But at the same time, he has no reason to pay Finnish publications if he already has to pay for the lifting of sanctions."
TelecomDaily CEO Denis Kuskov also believes that it made no sense for Arkady Volozh to make a paid order for Finnish media: "A data center located in Finland is not an enterprise that greatly influences life and has some political and economic weight. Therefore, I doubt that the article could have been paid for by the entrepreneur. And he will get out from under the sanctions, it was not for nothing that he did a huge job for this. Recent events indicate that Arkady Volozh has distanced himself from the situation with the previous company and wants to promote business outside of Russia."