With things on the way out. Google takes his team from Russia – BFM.Ru

With things on the way out. Google takes his team from Russia – BFM.Ru

Many people associate it with the entry into force in Russian law on personal data stored on the servers of the Russian Federation. Previously, the company withdrew its offices from countries such as Norway, Finland and Sweden

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Google plans to withdraw from the Russian engineering and technical services. This is done despite the search engine plans to increase investment in Russia in 2015, writes Bloomberg. Western media have linked the decision with the law on personal data stored on servers in the Russian Federation.

Google has sent an official media statement: “We appreciate our customers and clients in Russia and our Russian team is here to work for them ».

Bloomberg does not mention the reason for the care specialists from Russia.
According to the publication, Google intends to offer guidance to engineers from the staff in Moscow to continue to work in the state, but to relocate to another country. Many media noted that the company’s decision is due to the new law on personal data storage Russians, which will come into force on 1 September of the following year. According to The Financial Times, similar steps before Google has taken in other countries, including Norway, Finland and Sweden.

Google will continue to increase investment in Russia in 2015, said
«RIA Novosti” a source close to the company. Search quality in Russian – at a very high level, and it is popular as ever. Some media interpreted the statement Google, as a confirmation of the withdrawal of its staff, others – as a failure.

Can the actions of the search giant still be associated with the new law on the retention of personal data and how it will affect the average user, Business FM said the owner of the service statistics liveinternet German Klimenko.

German Klimenko

owner of the service statistics liveinternet

Earlier it was the intention to close the Google news service in Spain adopted in this country, the law would oblige the company to pay for reflection of any fragments in media content, the company does not want to do that, writes The Financial Times.

It should be noted that in Russia is growing confrontation with Google “by Yandex” due to the fact that the American corporation began to prohibit manufacturers of smartphones pre-install applications from Russian competitor.

Chapter “Yandex” Arkady Volozh recently called Google’s actions in the Russian bullying. In addition, Yandex is ready to become a witness in the antitrust investigation, which leads the EU in relation to Google.