How Russia's liberal tech companies became foundation of Putin's war effort
Fridays at Russian tech giant Yandex — the company once christened as "Russia's Google" — are marked by a large-scale all-hands meeting where employees can bring questions and problems to the company's upper management. Called khural, among the company's employees, a name for Mongolian parliament, the values behind it are usually associated with Silicon Valley. When Yandex's founders created the weekly ritual, they wanted to foster a sense of transparency, democracy, and community not found in other Russian companies.
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