Yandex is headed by CEO Arkady Volozh, who was previously CEO of CompTek International before joining Yandex in 2000.

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"Cloud-based browsing is a next-generation answer to the challenges of the modern internet, " said Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex.

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Back in December 1999, Nossik explained, four days before Vladimir Putin went from being Russian prime minister to president, he met with about 20 of the country's leading internet entrepreneurs, including Nossik himself, and Arkady Volozh, the founder of the dominant Russian search engine Yandex.

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