The State Duma will put the "Yandex" before the choice: either the status of the media, or the refusal of the news

The problem of that is the Yandex news aggregator with a media or not, they got close to the State Duma. However, this was worth expecting this after President Vladimir Putin raised the topic , and then deputy Andrei Lugovoi took the initiative.

“When the search engine gained too serious a scope, and gives its comment, and synthesizes a large number of news content in itself, here we must intervene and clearly register in the legislation that Yandex.No -News is really the media,” said the first deputy chairman of the Information Politics Committee Vadim RBC Daily , which asked the lawmakers the question of the future search engine.

The money colleague confirms that the work in this direction is underway, noting that the law will concern not only Yandex - resources of this kind can receive the status of "hybrid media".

In the explanation for the one that Yandex does not generate news content - the service shows the headlines of only the most authoritative media that have a Russian license - they do not believe in the State Duma. As in the fact that the selection of messages in Yandex.Noles is fully automated and is not subject to editorial choice.

The TOP "Yandex.No" is not automatically formed, the news is moderated and issued at a certain angle, the third interlocutor of the publication in the State Duma is sure. In fact, the Yandex.NOVES perform the work of the media - they make a squeeze from the news so that the reader can immediately grab their essence, interpreting them, adds another parliamentarian.

The point in the dispute about whether the “Yandex.No” of the media or not, the Prosecutor General’s Office should put - deputy Lugovoi is waiting for an answer from there. However, there are almost no doubts that prosecutors are in solidarity.

Thus, the source of RBC Daily, close to the leadership of United Russia, is sure: the response of the Prosecutor General will confirm the deputy’s suspicions and the supervisory authority will reward Yandex.NOVOSIS to register as the media.

“If they want to save the news, of course, they should become the media. Or they may refuse the top. Here Google does not have it, and this company should not register,” the source emphasized. Note that Google also has a news aggregator, but the parliamentarians, apparently, have not many questions for it.

For Yandex, refusal of news can be a serious problem. The news aggregator is a significant part of the company's business. Yandex.NOSTISS are monetized by contextual and banner advertising, and historically the PERFORMATION OF YANDEX.NOVOST was one of the highest among all Yandex projects.

“We cannot guarantee that political pressure cannot be exerted on us, which will significantly affect our business,” Asya Melkumova, the press secretary of Yandex, admits.

However, even if the claims to Yandex does not become a bill, the whole story of a positive impact on the company’s affairs certainly did not have. It is worth recalling that several phrases of Putin about Yandex, which noted that the company started as a project with Western influence, instantly influenced the cost of shares of a company that fell by 5%.

The fate of Yandex.NOVOZOV can be decided in the near future: according to sources, Putin should meet with the heads of leading Internet companies on June 10. Among the alleged participants are the general director of Yandex Arkady Volozh, Mail.ru Group Director Dmitry Grishin, LiveInternet Director German Klimenko, Ozon General Director Mael Gave, founder of Kupivip.ru Oscar Hartmann and others.

The theme of the news aggregator as the media will certainly arise during this conversation, especially since the competitors of Yandex have already begun in absentia to polemize with Lugov. So, the claims of parliamentarians are considered to be groundless in Rambler: a newspaper kiosk also distributes information , noted there.

It is possible that Yandex also has very influential intercessors who act not in public space, but behind the scenes. The other day, the head of Sberbank German Gref entered the board of directors of the company. On this occasion, the Yandex noted: in recent years, the process of regulating the Internet has been actively unfolding, therefore, the company and the Internet industry as a whole are increasingly faced with lobbying tasks, and "German Gref's examination in this area will also be useful to" Yandex ".