According to the statement of “Yandex”, the armed people, conducted on 13 August, the raids on his offices in Minsk, was presented by the staff of head Department on fight against organized crime and corruption (Gobaek) of Belarus, however, the search warrant could not provide. Law enforcement agencies of Belarus denies involvement of its employees to searches and Russian diplomats waiting. Meanwhile, from working in the country temporarily refused the Russian carsharing service Anytime.Statistics and chronicle protivostoyaniya delieverence people 13 Aug blocked the offices of Yandex and Uber (the brand belongs to “Yandex” in Belarus) in Minsk. As later explained in a press-service “Yandex”, conducted the searches were presented by the staff Holopic of Belarus (applicable to the structures of the Ministry of internal Affairs of the country). However, the base of the search in the protocols were not detailed. “No equipment or documents were not removed. At the end of the search the officers did not stay,”— said in “Yandex”.Themselves the law enforcement agencies of Belarus have not confirmed the involvement of its employees to searches. The Investigative Committee in Minsk, Minsk police and the state control Committee of Belarus has denied that the searches in Minsk offices “Yandex” are conducted by their employees, reported “Interfax” with reference to the representatives of these departments.Now the offices of Yandex unlocked. The Russian Embassy informed about the incident and expects to obtain “detailed information in connection with the situation”, reports “Interfax” with reference to the representative of the Embassy. “” Failed to contact the office of the company in Minsk.The Minsk office of “Yandex” is represented mainly by developers. They are engaged in products such as search, mail, advertising, cards, etc. According to industry portal dev.by only in the Minsk office of Yandex employs about 250 people. But almost all of them are now working remotely, said in a press-service “Yandex”.In Telegram channels and social networks also reported that on the background of these events has offered its employees to leave the office computer game developer Wargaming. However, in a press-service of company “b” said that the evacuation was not carried out, and the staff Wargaming and so have been working remotely. Thus, according to information from industry portal App2Top, in a closed group News Minsk the founder and CEO of Wargaming, Victor Kislyi told the employees that the company is in the plan to “the possible relocation of some staff and members of their families in other countries in case of force-majeure circumstances beyond the control of the company.”At the same time on the temporary refusal to work in Belarus, said carsharing service Anytime belonging to the owners of Russian “Telemobile”. “We can’t continue to work in this withEtoile. Therefore, our machines are unavailable for rental”,— quotes the edition Onliner.by the message that was received by the users. In a press-service of “Dailymobile” declined to comment.Director of the Russian Association of electronic communications Sergey Plugotarenko in connection with the searches said that the Association believes are not permitted these the intersection of politics and business, especially any military pressure on high-tech companies. “As a rule, such pressure and interference in the Affairs of the companies have a negative outcome for those who have this influence,” said Mr. Plugotarenko.According to the Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinicheva searches in Belarusian “Yandex” can be associated with a certain “retrograde understanding of what is happening” when the authorities are trying to get access to the “Telegraph” that “this is pointless”. It is unlikely the company is thinking about any serious retaliatory steps, he suggested, now it is rather only concerned with the health of the employees.Dmitry Shestoperov
