https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/04/russian-tech-giant-yandex-says-might-default-a76752
Yandex are apparently banned from NYSE. There are countless other articles like this one on countless other sites, about countless other companies.
Beyond the stupidity of giving Russia nothing to lose, is ANYONE considering the fallout this, at all? Like how Trudeau inadvertently triggered a run on the banks when he froze truckers' assets, How do we think asian corporations are going to respond to the knowledge that, should their country sufficiently piss off the west's ruling corpocracy, they will get fucked over in ANY and ALL business they have with the west?
This is madness. There isn't a rational thought in anyone's head at this point. The west is destroying international faith in its economic infrastructure.
It's suicide.
What's sad is Yandex is actually the only good search engine now. Or at least one of the better ones. And thats not from like a first amenedment trying to find uncensored stuff angle, just for general search results. If the first 2 or 3 results of google doesn't have exactly what you need it's pretty much done, Google is just weird spam now. Yandex will actually find web pages based on what you searched.
At the same time though, Russia is literally waging war on another moderately stable and developed country so it's not like these actions are unprovoked. So alluding to some anti-russian conspiracy doesn't make sense when all Russia had to do was not start attacking another country.