Yandex (Russian: Яндекс) is a Russian Internet company which operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 60% market share in that country. It also develops a number of Internet-based services and products. Yandex ranked as the 4th largest search engine worldwide, based on information from Comscore.com, with more than 150 million searches per day as of April 2012, and more than 50.5 million visitors (all company's services) daily as of February 2013. The company's mission is to provide answers to any questions users have or think about (explicit or implicit).
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1. Google 65,2% - 114.73 billion search queries
2. Baidu 8,2% - 14.5 billion queries
3. Yahoo 4,9% - 8.63 billion
4. Yandex - 4.844 billion
5. Microsoft (wo Bing) - 4.477 billion queries

http://www.yandex.com/

Yandex Passes Bing to Become 4th Largest Global Search Engine
_{9 feb 2013}

Rusland investeert drie miljard euro in Russische 'Silicon Valley'
_{1 aug 2013}

:arrow: het innovatiecentrum Skolkovo

1. informatietechnologie
2. biotechnologie
3. energie-efficiëntie
4. kernenergie
5. ruimtevaart

SBERBANK MAY FORM OWN VIRTUAL CURRENCY ON BASIS OF YANDEX MONEY
13 dec 2013
via zerohedge

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation, also known as The Bank of Russia, is a majority shareholder of Sberbank, owning 50%+1 share of Sberbank's voting shares with the rest of the shares dispersed among portfolio, private and other investors with an estimated shareholding of about 20% by foreigners. Russia's central bank cannot sell down its stake further without a change in Russia's laws. BRON

German Oskarovich Gref is a Russian economist of German ethnicity, the founder of Center of the Strategic Development. He was the Minister of Economics and Trade of Russia from May 2000 to September 2007. He currently is the president of Sberbank. BRON