Yandex company logoBRUSSELS, Mar 15 Managing director of Yandex group and new CEO of Yandex in Russia Tigran Khudaverdyan is included in the EU sanctions list due to the situation in Ukraine, follows from a document published in the official journal of the EU. Earlier, Yandex reported that Khudaverdyan was appointed CEO of Yandex in Russia instead of Elena Bunina, he will combine this post with the position of Managing Director of the entire Yandex group. The EU emphasizes that they consider Yandex to be involved in «withholding information from the Russians on Russia's military operation in Ukraine.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized.
