Russian tech giant Yandex removes national borders from Maps app – By Natasha Lomas (Techcrunch) / June 9, 2022
The reconfiguring of Russia’s digital landscape in the wake of Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine continues to play out at a macro and micro level. Here’s a development on the latter front: Local tech giant Yandex has quietly removed national borders from its maps product.
Users of Yandex’s maps app, which is popular in countries in the CIS region, can still see country names displayed — but lines depicting exact borders between countries like Ukraine and Russia are no longer visible.
We understand the move is an attempt to sidestep political pressure from the Kremlin related to the war in Ukraine — where Putin’s regime is attempting to redraw physical borders through bloody, military aggression.
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