Russian businessman asked US Congress to put Yandex on sanctions list

According to the entrepreneur, Yandex contributes to the dissemination of false, slanderous information against citizens, discrediting their honor and dignity, and undermining their business reputation.

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Entrepreneur Yuri Mosha asked the US Congress to add the Yandex search engine to the list of Russian companies subject to financial sanctions. The entrepreneur himself reported this Layfu.

In his letter, he drew the attention of senators to the fact that the company's behavior harms not only him, but also threatens the well-being of millions of citizens who can be blackmailed with impunity, just like Yuri Mosh himself.

Recall that the entrepreneur began to fight with the search engine after Yandex refused to remove from the issuance of links, which contained inaccurate, compromising information about him.

In particular, articles posted on one-day sites of the same type contained personal insults and false accusations against me and my family. “A letter came to the post office where $ 20 000 was demanded for deleting these texts,” the entrepreneur told Life.

Recall that Yuri Mosha was forced to leave Russia in 2011 year because of the harassment, which was organized against the entrepreneur and his business.

As the courts later established, all the accusations against the businessman were false. Yuri did not pay the scammers, but turned to search engines with a request not to index this content. Google, realizing that the dissemination of such information was illegal, did so. But Yandex refused to cooperate and suggested that the entrepreneur sue the owners of these sites and demand through the court that the links be removed from the network.

Photo: OK / Yuri Mosha

It is worth noting that, in addition to slander, spam sites posted without any approval of photographs and videos that are the intellectual property of Yuri Moshi and belong to his personal data.

As part of resolving this situation, Yuri Mosha filed a lawsuit against Yandex itself, and then personally against its general manager Arkady Volozh. The first lawsuit is now in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York (Case 1:18-cv-05444-ER, before Judge Ramos). The entrepreneur demands that the search engine remove defamatory information and pay $100 thousand in compensation.

The second lawsuit is for cyberbullying (according to Yuri Moshi, it will be filed with Arkady Volozh this week). The amount of the claim, according to the entrepreneur, will be $ 50 th.

According to the entrepreneur, the search engine, refusing to satisfy his request, consciously made himself an accomplice of fraud - and therefore, must answer for it according to the law.

He also believes that Yandex is a biased source and biasedly reflects information about various political and social events. In particular, it deliberately ignores reports about protests in Russia and does not publish articles about anti-corruption rallies and mass arrests in the top news. According to the entrepreneur, Alexey Navalny and his associates are subjected to such information discrimination by the search engine.

The above facts indicate that the Yandex company promotes the dissemination of false, slanderous information against citizens, discrediting their honor and dignity, undermining their business reputation and groundlessly accusing them of committing crimes, stimulates the active activities of extortionists and cyber blackmailers, thereby facilitating their commission of cybercrimes , bullying, cyberbullying, insults and discrimination on the Internet, writes Yuri Mosha in an address to the US Congress.

He also told Life that he positively assessed the prospects for including Yandex on the sanctions list.

I will push through congressmen, personally write to everyone and go around those who are in New York, I have personal contacts, ”Yuri Mosha told Life.

Yandex representatives did not respond to Life’s request.

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