Earlier quoted context omitted.
This Reuters article provides some useful context about Yandex: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/after-months-negotiati... . Yandex was split for a while into a Russian-controlled part and an independent part in the Netherlands, controlled by the original co-founder, which later become Nebius AI. Nowadays, these entities are completely detached, and Arkady Volozh has renounced his Russian citizenship.
No i mean i'm surprised they support putin and pay yandex. But what is that pro russian employee thing?
Their support agent in the forum very unambiguously answered to one of the early complaints about the Yandex thing with "Our opinion about war differs", I nope'd out right there and then