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Yandex now completely taken over by Russia - Putin's close ally, Alexei Kudrin, is pretty much taking over the helm.

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He wanted to say good-bye before he fell out that window.

"Bye, everyone! I only have a narrow "window of opportunity" to leave before the end of the year. So long! I hate to "drop" this on you. It will be a "long fall" for me when I step down."

"Keep pushing forward!"

Soon to be found fallen out of the window with lead poisoning as the primary cause of heartstroke.

“It panes me to have to say this..”

He must have noticed how they moved his desk next to the window, and keep offering him tea.

That is some real proactive management if I ever saw it.

This guy is so capable that he already picked the window he's going to be falling out of soon.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 66%. (I'm a bot)

> MOSCOW, Dec 30 - The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, Arkady Volozh, said goodbye in an internal message to staff on Friday ahead of a corporate restructuring that could see ownership of many of the firm's core services change hands.

> "As you know, I haven't really been involved in Yandex's Russian business for some time, but this year I had to step down from the company completely," Volozh said in the message, seen by Reuters.

> Yandex's Dutch-registered holding company last month said it planned to divest ownership and control of most of Yandex Group, including its main revenue-generating businesses, a move that could lead to enhanced Kremlin influence over some of Russia's backbone internet services.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Yandex^#1 Volozh^#2 Russian^#3 year^#4 company^#5

5/6, and now 6/7 parent comments in this thread contain the word “window”.

Shattered by this news.

"Stepping down from this job will leave me a broken man"

Why???

That's every thread about Russia. Bunch of tired window jokes and redditors beating dead horses.

I think some people don’t really have brains, just a wad of densely compacted memes.

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WINDOW WINDOW WINDOW SHOT THREE TIMES BACK OF HEAD FALLING FROM WINDOW WINDOW DESK TOO CLOSE TO WINDOW HE TRIPPED AND FELL WINDOW WINDOW WINDOW

TBF the Russian government is kind of encouraging it.

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Come on guys, stop throwing the horse out the window, it's already dead!

Actually "throw the horse out a window" sounds like one of those weird sayings people attribute to Germany or something, lol

>and redditors beating dead horses

How is it a dead horse if it's still actively occurring?

I mean it keeps happening so the horse is still kicking

OP is upset at redditors for pointing out Putin is recycling his boring stale plot.

When did Putin become so predictable? Was he always like this? It seems odd we used to think he was some sort of genius tyrant.

"alright we tried to do the free and good society thing and it didn't work. Back the old ways"

It's dead cause it fell out of the window.

sucks to hear yandex is the goat at reverse image search and every year google gets shittier what with it being so personalized and openly censored

Or Marx Brothers.

Throw the horse out a window? When it could strike a poor orphan on the street? Have you no shame, sir. Think of the windows and orphans."

☐ 'defenestration' / careful near windows ☐ stairs ☐ polonium tea ☐ suicide bullets in back of head ☐ etc

There probably needs to be a bingo card for this.

Youre right the bigger joke is how they have run the country to the ground

Rusky government preparing to go hard on the information front? Maybe for the massive loses to come in the donetsk front? Can't see why a full takeover from now would have been different VS months before..

so sad to hear about his suicide from a 6th story hospital window. tragic, really.

But there is something nagging me in the back of my mind.

I took my shot. Soon it will be your turn.

v'okhno

Because saying Mac or Apple doesn't quite fit the context.

"To shreds, out of a window, you say?"

I would not walk close to any windows if i were him

I find it fascinating. I’m sure the sociology types would call it memetics, as in meme. And they always get upvoted like it was a pleasant surprise to find that comment in a story about a notable Russian. No hate, it’s just neat how it’s always like that every time

Edit: maybe a check box for “poisoned undies”; that slips in sometimes, too

Except that they didn't, they sold out to the government quite quickly and became a part of the government propaganda on the internet side, blocking news and search results from "unfavorable" media outlets

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I support the Ukraine and I see Russia as the invader. Even if it's russian, I've used Yandex quite a bit, because it's somehow a good alternative for all content, which has been deleted from Google-Search because of copyright, etc.

What is the next good alternative, if you like to use a search engine, without companies and individuals being able to have search results removed? Do they exist?

I see a window in his future.

This sub is fucking garbage for the top comment usually being some stupid joke. It's also school holidays which means every dumbass kid who thinks they're hilarious is on here.

Oh look, it's /u/KimCureAll's original comment with the same level of subtlety and humour.

The main question, will wahapedia still work?

I really can't count the number of people I've inspired! LOL

Does anyone know of any other reverse image search that work better then Google?

Someone told you that you were funny. That was a cruel thing to do.

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Well if it wasn't for the fact that the next fucking person fell out of the window not so long ago then you would be right that this joke is dead.

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Isn't that correct though for the original meaning of "meme"?

Duckduckgo

Yandex has always been the regime's bitch, I have no sympathy.

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They say that search engines are the ‘windows’ to the Internet

Ah didn't realise that google was pro Trump during his term as president.

I make a point of always downvoting them. These stale, unfunny memes add nothing to the discussion, and get in the way of more interesting comments.

God forbid someone post something truly informed, it will be buried under a bunch of comments from people trying to show how funny and original they are.

The first step is alway the most difficult. Sometimes it helps to have a little help from your friends. After that the rest is easy!

Flying out of a window at midnight?

Onto a mug of polonium tea, no less.

"Just a little help from my friends" "Back in the USSR" - "It's easy!"

You could say it’s a……window of opportunity. Yyyyeeaaaahhh.jpg

seize the means of production comrades

"You can find me outside of tower 13 on the ground by sunday afternoon."

I sold Yandex just before the invasion

TinyEye from Canada works great

How do you suppose they stay independent from the tyranny of Russia while operating in Russia?

Tying up loose ends before he falls out of a window into a barrel of Polonium with 9 "self-inflicted" bullets in his head.

I second duckduckgo, especially if you use a VPN since some search engines will make you complete captchas.

Thank you. You're perfect.

I feel bad for Yandex, they weren't a bad business but it's hard to operate in the global market when their core audience is in a backsliding country. They had a thriving business in Ukraine until the Crimea situation.

It's Ukraine, without "the"

More entrepreneurial brains leaving Russia.

Window

Hmm lemme see, you don’t give a golden controlling share to the government for starters

Yandex has always had government fingers in their pot, i.e. corrupted.

doesn't matter the quality of their products, it should forever be boycotted. I was saying it for years and years.

They definitely don't have any means to coerce otherwise right?

Throw the country outta the window!

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I was genuinely expecting to read 'falls to death from window' in the title.

I mean, this doesn’t really change things if that’s the only thing you are using it for. Which is also what I presume, anyone in the west uses it for

Here's defenestration in Russian if you want to do any searching -- it's a nice simple cognate: дефенестрация

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