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The Russian government tightened its grip on the internet on Tuesday, as a state-controlled company with close links to President Vladimir Putin agreed to buy the news feed and homepage of the

Russia's leading internet firm Yandex on Tuesday said it had agreed to sell its news aggregator and yandex.ru homepage to state-controlled rival VK, a dramatic move that will likely further limit Russians' access to independent media.

Russia's Internet giant Yandex has announced the sale of its news aggregator and Yandex.ru homepage to state-controlled rival VK, the owner of the eponymous social network -- a move likely to deal a further blow to Russians' access to independent media.

The all-share deal, in which Yandex will acquire 100% of food delivery service Delivery Club, marks a significant shift in Russia's internet landscape, with Yandex effectively passing control over distribution of online content to a state-controlled firm

Belarusian military began unannounced combat drills, the Kremlin drops the term "denazification," and a Latin American RT influencer resigns.

The onslaught of laws, regulations and back-channel demands that the Kremlin imposed has reduced those once-promising tech giants to shadows of what they could have been — while wrecking what the companies founders had hoped would be hedges against government domination.

50,000 to 70,000 Russian tech workers have fled the country since the invasion of Ukraine. Tens of thousands more are expected to flee in April.

Former Head of News for Russia's largest search engine Yandex, Lev Gershenzon, is accusing the company of 'hiding' information about the war in Ukraine, and Gershenzon joins Morning Joe to discuss.

How long can Russia’s biggest tech company hold on in the face of the Kremlin’s unprecedented crackdown on free speech and information? “The future of Yandex depends on the future of Russia, not the other way around,” said one former board member who resigned from the company.

Among the oligarchs who were sanctioned over ties with Vladimir Putin following the war in Ukraine are a few billionaires who hold Israeli citizenship – or are eligible for it ■ If they now decide to make their home in Israel, they could change the balance of forces in the local economy