За словами директора місцевої кіномережі, в Росії готові судитися, якщо до кінця року компанія не повернеться на російський ринок
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Губернатор регіону стверджує, що сталося їхнє «самозаймання» через «спекотну погоду»
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«Ми маємо й надалі надавати українським друзям все, чого вони потребують, поки Росія не припинить цю жахливу війну»
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Більше 40 відсотків від цієї суми, за словами прем’єра, пішло на потреби армії
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Russia’s leading internet firm Yandex on Tuesday said it had agreed to sell its news aggregator and yandex.ru homepage to rival VK in a move likely to further limit 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.
VK already runs Russia’s largest social network, V Kontakte, while Moscow has blocked access to some foreign platforms, including Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram.
Russia’s yearslong suppression of independent media intensified sharply after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, passing a law banning what it calls “false information” about the armed forces and quashing many organizations’ ability to broadcast freely.
“The board and management of Yandex have concluded that the interests of the company’s stakeholders … are best served by pursuing the strategic exit from its media businesses and shifting to a focus on other technologies and services,” Yandex said in a statement.
Nasdaq-listed Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google,” has in recent years complied with Moscow’s demands under threat of fines over which publications’ stories can feature on its news aggregator, drawing criticism over the impact on media freedom.
Moscow has not blocked access to most foreign-language media, which remain freely available in Russia and on Yandex, but search results do restrict access to any sites that communications regulator Roskomnadzor has banned, many of which are Russian-language independent media.
In February, Yandex started warning Russian users seeking information about events in Ukraine of unreliable information online.
In March, a former head of Yandex News, Lev Gershenzon, described Yandex as a key element in hiding information about the conflict in Ukraine. Yandex has denied being complicit in censorship.
“We are buying our freedom,” a source close to Yandex said. “This business had been such a weight on our feet. … This will enable us to do our business significantly depoliticized, practically completely depoliticized.”
Yandex dominates Russia’s online search market with a share of around 62%, according to its own analytics tool Yandex Radar. Google accounts for about 36%, with VK’s mail.ru at less than 1%.
That stronghold over the online search market will likely continue.
Yandex.ru displays a bundle of news stories below its search bar, followed by a rolling stream of content. The company’s entry point for search will now become ya.ru, a site that resembles Google’s homepage and is already popular with those who prefer uncluttered searches.
Yandex.ru, complete with News and Zen, will be renamed dzen.ru, Yandex said, with VK to take over development and control over “content, look and feel.”
The deal, signed on Monday, requires anti-monopoly approval and is expected to close in the coming months, Yandex said.
*Please note from Reuters that this content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, are playing a huge part in the war in Ukraine. But keeping them in the air can be challenging. One Ukrainian company is doing just that and more. Kateryna Markova has the story. Camera – Viktor Petrovych.
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До парку прибули будівельники, спецтехніка
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Більшість обвинувачених ніколи раніше не брали участь у протестах і не мали жодного стосунку до політичної, правозахисної чи журналістської діяльності
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«Дугіна – перша в цьому ряду. Україна, на відміну від Росії, не воює з мирним населенням»
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«Це судове рішення дасть змогу правоохоронним органам України клопотати перед судом про екстрадицію обвинуваченого в Україну»
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Ukraine marks six months on Wednesday since Russia invaded the country in what Russian President Vladimir Putin calls a “special military operation.”
Ukraine and its Western backers accuse Moscow of waging an unprovoked war of aggression with the aim of grabbing land and erasing Ukrainian national identity.
Putin said his aim was to disarm the country in order to preemptively ensure Russia’s own security against NATO expansion and to rid it of far-right nationalists who he said threatened Russia.
Here is a timeline of the main events in Ukraine’s political history since it won independence from Moscow in 1991.
1991: Leonid Kravchuk, leader of the Soviet republic of Ukraine, declares independence from Moscow. In a referendum and presidential election, Ukrainians overwhelmingly back independence and elect Kravchuk president. He is replaced by Leonid Kuchma in 1994, when Ukraine also agrees to relinquish its nuclear arsenal — the world’s third largest, inherited from Soviet times – in return for security assurances based on respect for its independence and sovereignty under the Budapest Memorandum signed also by Russia, the United States and Britain.
2004: Pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovich is declared president but allegations of vote-rigging trigger protests in what becomes known as the Orange Revolution, forcing a re-run of the vote. A pro-Western former prime minister, Viktor Yushchenko, is elected president.
2005: Yushchenko takes power with promises to lead Ukraine out of the Kremlin’s orbit, towards NATO and the European Union. He appoints former energy company boss Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister but after in-fighting in the pro-Western camp, she is sacked.
2010: Yanukovich defeats Tymoshenko in a presidential election. Russia and Ukraine clinch a gas pricing deal in exchange for extending the lease for the Russian navy at a Black Sea port on Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.
2013: Yanukovich’s government suspends trade and association talks with the EU in November and opts to revive economic ties with Moscow, triggering months of mass rallies in Kyiv. Putin accuses the West of inciting and supporting the protests.
2014: The protests, largely focused around Kyiv’s Maidan Square, turn violent. Dozens of protesters are killed. In February, the parliament votes to remove Yanukovich, who flees. Within days, armed men seize parliament in Crimea and raise the Russian flag. Moscow annexes the territory after a March 16 referendum which shows overwhelming support in Crimea for joining Russia.
April 2014: Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region declare independence. Fighting breaks out and continues sporadically into 2022, despite frequent ceasefires.
July 2014: A missile brings down passenger plane MH17 over eastern Ukraine en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, killing all 298 people on board. Investigators trace back the weapon used to Russia, which denies involvement.
2017: President Petro Poroshenko, a pro-Western billionaire businessman in power since May 2014, clinches an association agreement with the EU on free trade of goods and services. Ukrainians also gain the right to visa-free travel to the EU.
2019: Former comic actor Volodymyr Zelenskyy defeats Poroshenko in an April presidential election on promises to tackle endemic corruption and end the war in eastern Ukraine. His Servant of the People party wins a July parliamentary election.
2021: Zelenskyy appeals in January to U.S. President Joe Biden to let Ukraine join NATO. Russia masses troops near Ukraine’s borders during the spring in what it says are training exercises. In December Russia presents detailed security demands including a legally binding guarantee that NATO will give up any military activity in eastern Europe and Ukraine. In response, NATO repeats a commitment to its “open-door” policy while offering “pragmatic” discussions of Moscow’s security concerns.
2022: In a televised address on February 21, Putin says that Ukraine is an integral part of Russian history, has never had a history of genuine statehood, is managed by foreign powers, and has a puppet regime. Putin signs agreements to recognize the breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent and orders Russian troops there. The West imposes more economic sanctions on Russia. On February 24, Putin declares war in a pre-dawn televised address and Russia launches a three-pronged invasion, targeting Ukrainian forces and air bases with missiles and artillery and striking areas in cities. As tens of thousands of people flee their homes, Zelenskyy orders a general mobilization.
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«Враховуючи вимоги бізнесу і профспілок, насправді переговори з «Газпромом» про відновлення поставок – неминучі»
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29 липня Верховна Рада ухвалила закон, який передбачає наявність у новому житлі, яке будуватиметься, власного бомбосховища
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«Ми маємо інформацію про те, що Росія посилює зусилля для завдання ударів по цивільній інфраструктурі й урядових об’єктах України найближчими днями»
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The Hungarian government on Monday fired the head of the national weather service and her deputy, two days after a fireworks display to celebrate Hungary’s national holiday was delayed for fear of storms.
Technology Minister Laszlo Palkovics, under whose authority the National Meteorological Service (NMS) falls, relieved President Kornelia Radics and her deputy Gyula Horvath from their duties but did not provide a reason.
The ministry did not immediately return AFP’s call.
But the announcement came a day after pro-government media criticized NMS for their forecast of thunderstorms and gusts of wind, which prompted the cancellation of the fireworks on Saturday.
Online news outlet Origo said the agency had given “misleading information about the extent of the bad weather, which misled the operation team responsible for security.”
The NMS agency apologized on Sunday, citing “a factor of uncertainty inherent in the profession.”
In a reaction broadcast on the social network Facebook, liberal politician Andras Fekete-Gyor joked: “They couldn’t produce the desired weather, they were fired.
“No, it’s not a dictatorship in Central Asia, it’s the Hungary of Fidesz,” he said, referring to the country’s ruling party.
The fireworks display — billed as “the biggest in Europe” to celebrate “Hungary’s millennial state” — has been rescheduled for later this week.
The opposition had earlier called for its cancellation, denouncing it as “a useless waste of money” at a time when the country’s economy is struggling.
In 2006, the annual festivities were hit by a violent storm that killed five people and injured several hundred, causing widespread panic among more than a million people who had gathered to watch on the banks of the Danube.
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Ukraine’s military chief says nearly 9,000 soldiers have died since Russia invaded Ukraine almost six months ago.
General Valerii Zaluzhnyi made the remarks Monday at a veterans event, giving the first official toll of Ukraine’s military losses since April.
The United Nations says it has confirmed the deaths of more than 5,500 civilians during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began February 24.
The U.N. children’s agency said Monday it has confirmed at least 972 Ukrainian children killed or injured from violence but said the true number is likely to be much higher.
Most of the child casualties have been caused by the use of explosive weapons, according to a statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.
Wednesday marks six months since the start of the war. It is also Ukraine’s Independence Day, marking 31 years since the country gained independence from Soviet rule.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned of potential Russian actions against Ukraine as the country prepares to mark Independence Day.
Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, canceled public Independence Day celebrations. Reuters news agency said a government document shows authorities in Kyiv banned public events related to the anniversary from Monday through Thursday.
In other developments Monday, Ukraine reported fresh Russian aerial attacks near the site of a major nuclear power plant.
Regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said Russian rocket strikes hit areas to the west of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The rockets struck houses, a kindergarten and stores, Reznichenko said.
Russia and Ukraine have traded blame for repeated shelling near the power plant. Ukraine has asked the United Nations and other international organizations to force Russia to leave the site, which it has occupied since March, even as Ukrainian technicians operate the facility.
The White House said U.S. President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed the situation in a call on Sunday.
A White House statement said the leaders talked about “the need to avoid military operations near the plant and the importance of an IAEA visit as soon as feasible to ascertain the state of safety systems.”
Talks have been under way for more than a week to arrange a visit to the plant by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
In a phone call Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Macron that Russia would allow international inspectors to enter the plant.
Some information for this story came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
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A bag with an explosive charge was found in a Stockholm park during an annual cultural festival and police have opened a preliminary investigation into attempted public destruction, police in Sweden said Monday.
On Sunday, a bag was found and its content was immediately “assessed as dangerous.” The surrounding area was cordoned off and traffic was temporarily rerouted, police said. A bomb squad neutralized the content of the bag on the spot.
“It is only after the investigation at the national forensic center that we can say whether the dangerous object was functional,” said Erik Åkerlund, local police manager.
The police department said it was working “widely,” interviewing witnesses and examining photo and video images. At the moment no one is in custody.
Police said the bag was found at 9:40 p.m. Sunday. The Aftonbladet newspaper said it was left near the Cafe Opera, a famous nightclub.
The five-day Stockholm Culture Festival ended Sunday with a concert by Iranian pop singer Ebi, whose real name is Ebrahim Hamedi and who is a known Iranian dissident. The free festival included musical acts, activities and performances in six areas across the Swedish capital.
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Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has tested negative in a drug test she took following the publication of video footage last week that showed her partying with friends, the prime minister’s office said on Monday.
Video clips of Marin, 36, at a party with Finnish celebrities began circulating on social media last week and they were soon published by several media outlets in Finland and abroad.
On Thursday, Marin said she was upset that videos of her dancing at private parties were published online as they were meant to be seen only by friends.
Marin, who became the world’s youngest serving government leader in December 2019, agreed on Friday to take the drug test, saying she had never taken drugs and that she had not seen anyone doing so at the party she attended.
Social Democrat leader Marin also said her ability to perform her official duties had remained unimpaired on the Saturday night in question and that she would have left the party had she been required to work.
Some Finns have voiced support for Marin and others have raised questions about her judgment.
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