Yandex: After months of negotiation, a rare Russian compromise as Yandex changes hands
Six months earlier, the purchase of Yandex's Russia-based businesses, which generate more than 95% of revenue, by Russian investors looked in peril when the company's co-founder Arkady Volozh called the invasion of Ukraine "barbaric". With the Kremlin highly sensitive to criticism of what it calls a "special military operation", some on the Russian side of talks wanted to leave Volozh and Yandex NV with nothing, according to four sources familiar with the matter.