Google’s challenger now caught in Putin’s grip
Arkady Volozh built Yandex into Russia's Google, Uber, Spotify, and Amazon in one. Then the invasion of Ukraine undid twenty years of careful balance.
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YouTube is a tough dilemma for Putin
Russia may be closing in on YouTube next. But the service is both a megaphone for Kremlin propaganda and a rare lifeline for independent Russian journalism.
Russia is building its own internet — with its own rules
Russia is following China's path toward a closed internet. With the Runet project and the 2019 sovereign-internet law, the building blocks for a splinternet are in place.
The tech giants profited from the propaganda — now they want to limit it
YouTube, Meta and Twitter now want to limit Russian state media. But for years they made millions from the same propaganda channels they're trying to contain.
Could crypto be the oligarchs’ way out of sanctions?
Crypto is anonymous, fast and global — the perfect tool for Russian oligarchs trying to dodge sanctions. But new analytics tools are making transactions more traceable than many think.