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Russia’s Yandex head steps down two weeks early
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Russian net group Yandex Main Government Officer Elena Bunina attends a session of the Moscow Economical Forum in Moscow, Russia September 6, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photograph
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April 2 (Reuters) – Elena Bunina is stepping down as chief govt of Yandex LLC, Russia’s greatest know-how company, some two weeks before her tenure is due to expire on April 15, the organization mentioned on Saturday.
“Elena Bunina is leaving (her) positions of CEO and HR director at Yandex LLC, it was her individual decision,” Yandex’s press services stated in an email. It mentioned Artem Savinovsky, a senior manager at the enterprise, had been appointed acting CEO.
No further information have been presented of reasons for the transfer, which is the next the latest high-level departure from Yandex, which builds smart items and companies driven by machine studying.
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Past month, Tigran Khudaverdyan stepped down as government director and deputy CEO at Nasdaq-detailed Yandex NV (YNDX.O), Yandex LLC’s guardian which is registered in the Netherlands, following the European Union involved him and a group of Russian businessmen on a sanctions checklist more than Moscow’s “distinctive military services operation” in Ukraine.
Khudaverdyan was sanctioned in the EU as an personal. Neither Yandex NV nor any of its subsidiaries have been sanctioned by the United States, EU or Britain.
In its statement asserting the departure on March 15, the organization stated Bunina would go on as common director of Yandex LLC, its principal functioning subsidiary, until finally April 15.
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