The co -founder of Yandex Arkady Volozh deleted Russia from the biography on his website

The co -founder of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, called himself the Israeli entrepreneur born in Kazakhstan in a biography, which is published on his personal website. Russia in this biography is not mentioned as a country in which Volozh lived and led a business.

Quote . “Arkady Volozh is born in Kazakhstan, an Israeli technical entrepreneur, a computer-computer, an investor and philanthropist. He was a pioneer in the development of search and navigation technologies, as well as intellectual products and services based on machine learning. Since 2015, Volozh has been living in Israel, engaged in the main development and study of new technologies, ”the biography published on the website voloZh.com says.

• Mail with this domain (Media@volozh.com) is indicated as contact information on the Volozh page on the Linkedin network.
• The mention of Russia is also trying to delete from the English version of Volozh’s biography in Wikipedia (the first to attention was paid attention to the Volunteer of the OVD Info Julia Yakovleva). In February, the user with IP in Tel Aviv first removed the phrase “Russian billionaire” from the article, and on August 6, after the phrase was returned, removed it again, but this edit was canceled. Yakovleva noted that this Israeli user runs only the English -language article by Volozh and only about his connections with Russia.
• The Agency on Monday morning could not get through to the official representative of Volozh. We sent a request to the mail.

Context . After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Volozh fell under the sanctions of the European Union, after which he left all the posts in Yandex. The company itself had to go through a painful transformation: a Russian business is distinguished from it, which will get other shareholders (restructuring is engaged in the former head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin), and Volozh will maintain control only over the international block (development of unmanned and cloud technologies, the educational services of Toloka and Yandex.Placticum).

• According to Forbes, in March 2022, Volozh stopped being a dollar billionaire - his fortune decreased by 2 billion to 580 million dollars.
• The entrepreneur never spoke about the war in Ukraine.
• Volozh is not the only Russian businessman who was distanced from Russia after the outbreak of war. In April 2022, American Forbes wrote that several entrepreneurs who were born in Russia and started their business at once, turned to the magazine with a request not to make them on the list of Russian billionaires.
• Some Russian businessmen, including Yuri Milner and Nikolai Peninons, later abandoned Russian citizenship. Others, including Alisher Usmanov and Co-owners of Alfa-Bank, Peter Aven and Mikhail Friedman, moved to other countries and are trying to challenge the Western sanctions introduced after the start of the war through the courts.

Read more. The project “Project” in its investigation of “Passes of War” called Russian billionaires earning in the war. Among them was Volozh.