“Something is always breaking. Something is always not
working.” Anton, a 31-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, described his
experience this way. One night, when he returned home, he found everything
around him dark. His smart bulbs were not lighting up.
The bulbs were controlled through Yandex, the technology
company known as “Russia’s Google.” The company provides internet-based
services and digital products, including cloud services, a search engine, maps,
artificial intelligence (A...
