A ComNews correspondent contacted the press service of Yandex

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Arkady Volozh, on his personal website volozh.com and on his personal page on the social network LinkedIn, indicated that he is an Israeli technology entrepreneur, computer scientist, investor and philanthropist, born in Kazakhstan, a pioneer in the development of search and navigation technologies, as well as intelligent products and services based on machine learning.

"Since 2015, Arkady Volozh ivory coast whatsapp resource has lived in Israel, primarily developing and studying new technologies. He was one of the founders and CEO of CompTek, where he created one of the largest distributors of telecommunications/networking equipment in Russia and the largest distributor of Cisco in Russia and the CIS. Arkady Volozh became one of the founders of the Internet company Yandex NV, listed on NASDAQ. In June 2022, Arkady Volozh left the post of CEO and member of the board of directors of Yandex NV, having worked in this position for 25 years," he said in his biography.

Arkady Volozh emphasizes the details of his entrepreneurial activity outside the Russian Federation: "He was an investor and a member of the board of directors of the Israeli company Face.com, which was later acquired by Facebook (owned by Meta, whose activities are recognized as extremist in Russia and are banned - ComNews note ) in 2012. He was also one of the early investors in the Turkish company Getir, which was the first to implement a model for delivering products in 15 minutes. Previously, he was a member of the board of directors of NeuroSteer, a company with divisions in New York, California and Israel, which developed the world's first wearable medical platform for analyzing brain activity, designed for a wide range of medical, health and lifestyle applications."
and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media), but did not receive any comments on how Arkady Volozh's disassociation from Russia would affect Yandex.

Inna Anisimova, CEO of PR Partner LLC (PR Partner communications agency), believes that despite Arkady Volozh's desire to distance himself from the Russian Federation and everything connected with it, he is unlikely to succeed, since the core team of Yandex, with which society associates him, is from Russia, and the main language of the Yandex search engine is Russian. "You can reject Russia as much as you like, but Yandex makes its money here. Perhaps its business will suffer the fate of Tinkoff Bank, and then Yandex will face a sale to Sber or another player and subsequent nationalization," Inna Anisimova reasons.