The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers, oil company Lukoil and other investors.
I expect them to do what Google did: see the way the winds are blowing and get out before their assets are seized or their leadership disappeared. It’s not like these are sudden shifts. The decline of both states toward increasing totalitarianism has been happening for at least 15 years.
I expect them to do what Google did: see the way the winds are blowing and get out before their assets are seized or their leadership disappeared. It’s not like these are sudden shifts. The decline of both states toward increasing totalitarianism has been happening for at least 15 years.
In the case of Russia at least, the frog was boiled very slowly, slow enough that if you wanted to, you were able to deny it for many years.