October 13, 2026 Yandex NV
A third Yandex data center in Russia has been hit by Ukrainian drone strikes within a week, forcing the company to suspend operations at its Vladimir facility. Yandex said no one was injured, but at least 84 services were affected, with Yandex Cloud operating in limited mode. The Sasovo and...
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October 08, 2026 Yandex NV
A Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, has reportedly been hit by a drone strike, according to the Kyiv Independent. Open-source intelligence groups identified the facility as Yandex DC Sasovo, the company’s largest data center. Yandex Cloud’s status dashboard reported an ongoing...
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December 01, 2022 Yandex NV
Russian company Yandex has announced plans to separate its cloud computing and other tech businesses from Russia, moving them out of the Eastern Europe country. Yandex’s ties with Russia have caused economic problems for it since the war in Ukraine. Earlier in the summer, Yandex sold off its...
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September 27, 2022 Yandex NV
Yandex has announced that it is expanding in western Russia, with the addition of a new 63MW facility in the Grabtsevo industrial park in Kaluga, around 100 miles south of Moscow. According to reports, the data center is expected to span 130,000 square meters and house more than 3,800 server...
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June 06, 2022 Yandex NV
It has been announced that Arkady Volozh, co-founder Yandex, the largest Russian technology firm, has resigned as CEO of the company after being added to the EU's list of individuals sanctioned over the war in Ukraine. Volozh was named last week in the EU's sixth round of sanctions. Moreover, in...
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May 03, 2022 Yandex NV
According to circulating reports, Yandex's Finland data center has been disconnected from the electricity grid by Nivos Energia Oy. This news comes in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite the company, which is registered in the Netherlands, not being on a sanctions list. That said,...
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