... have to work together. That might be sufficient to break the cycle. Yet we did have a crisis in 2008 and it wasn’t big enough, it really didn’t solve the problem. I think the next one has got to be even bigger, unfortunately.
You also said that internet is the ‘wild west’ for social media with everybody using it to their advantage. It seems to be relevant for the Western world — Russia included — do you think that the developing countries are going to step in this direction as well?
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... the Internet, understand the position of Yandex in the Russian Internet and want to buy our advertising services. They also prefer to conduct negotiations in Chinese and in China, rather than correspond with the Moscow office or have to fly to Moscow.
China's Internet is quite isolated: China has its own web search engine, its own social networks, etc. Is Yandex planning to offer its services to the Chinese?
We don’t really like to talk about our plans.
On October, 22 at a meeting of BRICS IT-ministers ...
... Putin. However, Russia enjoys the support of other leading international actors, in particular China. Moreover, the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has gained a unique experience in government regulation of the national segment of the Internet. China has imposed measures to enact strict government control over Internet communications, restricted access to many sites and actively operates the Golden Shield Project (the Great Firewall of China), which allows governmental agencies to filter almost ...