Yandex office in Moscow. File photoHELSINKI, May 5. The legal entity of Russia's Yandex, which has a data center in Finland, has changed its name and is under government surveillance, Finnish public broadcaster YLE reports. changed the name of its subsidiary in Finland to Global DC Oy,” the report says. Due to the current situation, the attention of the authorities is riveted to the company’s activities. .Jussi Halla-aho, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, calls to find out how the actions of Yandex in the dissemination of information and news are a violation of the law. Answering the question whether Finland should try to promote the inclusion of Yandex in the EU sanctions list, Halla-aho noted that will not comment on individual companies, but advocates the most comprehensive sanctions «Any type of business related to Russian money should be minimized,» he said. The Yandex data center has been operating in the Finnish city of Mäntsälä since 2015; Yango.
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