Yandex: From tech innovation to information control

This report documents how Yandex — its search engine, integrated LLM (YandexGPT) and AI assistant Alice — has been subjected to increasing Kremlin influence, leading to algorithmic censorship and the export of pro‑Kremlin disinformation to Russian-speaking users abroad; it cites independent studies and a leaked Social Design Agency dataset that describe deliberate operations to bias AI responses and ‘‘poison’’ model outputs, affecting millions of users across multiple countries.