The head of Yandex. News announced its departure due to the adoption of the law on news aggregates

The head of the news aggregator "Yandex. News" Tatyana Isaeva leaves his post on August 1 of this year. According to her, the “endless links of the chain” influenced this decision, including the closure and change of editions in the media, as well as the adoption of the Law on News aggregators in the Russian Federation, Medusa reports.

Information about the departure of Isaeva to journalists has already been confirmed in the press service of the company. In Yandex expressed regret regarding its decision to dismiss. It is expected that the new head of Yandex. News will be Sergey Rubakov.

Journalists of the VC portal note that Isaev also wrote about Facebook on a non -public note on the social network. According to her, due to the adoption of the law on news aggregators and the "endless links of the chain" (closing and changing the editorial offices in the media), work on the news aggregator "ceases to be such an interesting thing."

Tatyana Isaeva became the head of Yandex. News in 2012, replacing Leo Gershenzon on this post. Prior to this, she was the content manager of the service, as well as the head of the direction in interaction with the partners "Yandex. News".

On June 10, State Duma deputies in the third and final reading adopted a draft law that equates large news Internet services to the media. The document submitted for consideration at the end of February by the deputies Aleksey Kazakov (“Fair Russia”) and Alexander Yushchenko (Communist Party) caused a stormy discussion in society and criticism from representatives of the Internet industry, which indicated that the adoption of the bill in its original form leads to the closure of news aggregators due to excessive requirements for verifying the public information.