Yandex office in MoscowMOSCOW, Jan 19«Yandex» will transfer 1.5 billion rubles to the Russian Fund for the Development of Information Technologies (RFRIT) to promote domestic software under a settlement agreement with the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation reported. «Yandex» will transfer 1.5 billion rubles to the Russian Development Fund information technologies, the funds will be used to promote Russian software products. … The decision to transfer funds for activities aimed at developing the IT industry was reached as part of a settlement agreement between the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Yandex LLC and the applicants,» the message says.
Putin approved the introduction of responsibility for the pace of transition to the Russian software. It is specified that the ministry welcomes the conclusion of a settlement agreement. «We welcome the constructive positions in the negotiation process of the FAS, Yandex and the applicants and, as a result, the conclusion of a settlement agreement. Now the fund needs to quickly launch a new service for IT startups, and thus ensure the seamless receipt of support measures for companies: from acceleration , grants for the development of projects before the launch of products on the market and their promotion,” said Maxim Parshin, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development. “The Russian Internet industry has taken an important step towards maturity and the ability to independently resolve its issues through self-regulation. small IT companies to promote their goods and services on the Internet. This will become an additional impetus for the development of the digital economy,» Andrey Styskin, director of the search, advertising and cloud services business group at Yandex, said on Wednesday. «and the applicants in the antitrust case of discrimination against third-party search services entered into a settlement agreement, it court approved.
Kommersant: The Ministry of Digital Development offered Lenovo, HP, Acer to use Russian processorsHISTORY DELAFACE reported in April that it had filed a case against Yandex for discriminating against third-party search services, the company could face a turnover fine. Yandex was accused of discrimination, in particular, by online services Ivi, Avito, CIAN, Profi.ru, Tutu.ru, Drom.ru, 2GIS, Zoon. Yandex services in search results. As noted in the service, if the fact of restriction of competition is established, the company may be assigned a turnover fine from the amount of revenue in the market in which the offense was committed. The amount of the fine could range from 1% to 15% of revenue. According to IT companies, the Yandex search engine responds to user requests in so-called enriched responses, which are also called «sorcerers», the services of Yandex itself. Thus, the consumer first of all sees the Yandex service and often does not reach the competing service. At the same time, in February, the Federal Antimonopoly Service issued a warning to Yandex for creating discriminatory conditions in the search engine. «Yandex» had to provide third-party services with access to the same special promotion opportunities in search results within a month as for its own resources. In May, Yandex published six principles for getting into complex rich answers, which, in its opinion, give partner companies an equal opportunity in online search. However, representatives of the IT industry then told RIA Novosti that the new rules do not cancel the ability of Yandex to adjust search results in their favor. In July, Yandex announced that it had launched universal enriched answers in the search service that show information from several sources. At the same time, later in July, the FAS indicated that the company did not comply with the agency's warning.
