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Yandex today announces the release of a new mobile application Yandex.Fotki.

Starting today, Yandex users can find their way not only in the city, but also underground. Now, Yandex offers metro map search for all cities on the Yandex.Maps service, which have a metro system.

Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, announced today that Nilesh Lakhani has been named the company’s chief financial officer.

Today Yandex has held the final round of Russia’s Eighth Annual Open Search Cup.

Yandex announced today that its Yandex.Images service is now able to search for images beyond the bounds of the Russian Internet.

Yandex today announced the launch of the Yandex Local Network Program.

Yandex announced today that Yandex.Market, the Yandex comparison shopping system, started to display user reviews of participating online shops.

Yandex announced a joint program between its photo hosting service Yandex.Fotki and FotoClick.ru, a photo printing service.

Yandex and HTC Corp. have announced their partnership.

The first round of the Yandex Eighth Annual Open Internet Search Cup has come to a close with 112 players, all of whom gave at least 11 correct answers, left standing.

Today, Yandex reviewed the results of its Advertising Network performance.

Yandex announced that it is now offering a monthly budget forecasting tool for all users of Yandex.Direct, the company’s online advertising service.

Today, Yandex announces that its Yandex.Direct ad-serving system now supports the Ukranian language.

Yandex has announced that its advertising platform, Yandex.Direct, will now offer a deferred payments system for its regular customers. Previously, only the prepayment option was available to advertisers.

Yandex is now positioned as a local resource in Novosibirsk. The company has set up its networking equipment within the Novosibirsk Internet Exchange Point (NSK IX) and now allows local internet providers to give their users free access to the Yandex services like if it was a local resource.

Yandex has started publishing user ratings for Yandex.Market, the portal’s network of online shops.

Yandex has announced that the Eighth Annual Open Internet Search Cup, which the company has held since 2001 will begin on October 11, 2007.

Yandex announced today that it has launched a new initiative for educational institutions.

Today, Yandex has introduced a customized search engine specifically for its Ukrainian users.

Yandex’s social networking service, MoiKrug, announced today that it has registered its one millionth user.

Yandex now features detailed satellite maps of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region on its Yandex.Maps application.

Admission board of the Yandex School of Data Analysis formed the first group of students. After competitive examination 80 applicants became students of the Yandex school.

Yandex announced that it has increased the basic storage capacity of the user accounts on its email service Yandex.Mail from 20 MB to 10 GB.

Now, the new version of Yandex.Images finds 1.5 times more pictures.

Yandex issued a free spam filter for corporate email.

Yandex launched a new data center with 3 thousand servers.

Yandex released information bulletin "Online payments in Russia".

Today, Yandex.Maps has launched a mobile application.

Right before the Day of Knowledge - September 1, the day the school year starts - Yandex launched school.yandex.ru, the homepage for schoolchildren.

Yandex launches email service for smartphones, communicators, and PDAs.

Yandex.Direct started open testing of Yandex user behavioural targeting. The new technology will allow the users to see mostly the ads that they are interested in, and the advertisers will be able to pinpoint their target audience.

Yandex starts open testing of the new, tenth version of their homepage today. Anyone interested can find out what Yandex will look like in the near future at next.yandex.ru.

Yandex, Russia's largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced the opening of the Yandex School of Data Analysis, a two-year Master’s-level program led by Dr. Ilya Muchnik, Ph.D., a world class scientist and professor of computer science at Rutgers University.

Yandex issued the information bulletin ”Context advertising in Russia”.

Today users of MoiKrug service at Yandex became full members of Vedomosti newspaper Readers Club.

Yandex released the study ”Traffic jams in Moscow”.

Yandex opened a development office in Kiev.

Yandex.Direct, context ad placement system, started accepting instant payments from Ukrainian webusers.

Yandex features a satellite map of Moscow and Moscow region. Now it is possible to view Moscow and suburbs (Podmoscovye) in detail, down to individual buildings or cars.

Yandex web and blog search is now available right at LiveJournal, one of the largest blog hosting services in the Russian Internet.

Yandex blog Search now has an instrument for estimation and measurement of public opinion in the Internet — ”Pulse of Blogosphere”.

Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced audited financial results for the year ended December 31, 2006.

From date, Yandex.News offers a new page for the news feature (selection of news related to one event). A combination of main facts, illustrations, and reference information creates three-dimensional representation of the news.

Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced that it is acquiring a stake in Yandex.Money from the PayCash Group. As a result of this transaction Yandex will become the sole owner of Yandex.Money, one of the leading Russia’s online payment systems.

From date, all contents of Krugosvet encyclopedia are available on the web pages of Yandex.Slovari (Yandex.Dictionaries).

Russia’s largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced that it has purchased MoiKrug.ru, the largest social network for Russian-speaking professionals.

Yandex issued an information bulletin ”Online shopping in Russia”.

Yandex announces launch of mobile version of traffic jam map.

Yandex announces the start of a large-scale campaign to support talented young people. The project started yesterday with awarding the winners of the 70th Moscow Mathematical Olympiad in the Main Buidling at Moscow State University.

Yandex provides advertisers with a new tool to appraise site audience quality and measure conversion ratio for keyword advertising. Yandex.Direct now features a new instrument called Metrica.

Yandex opened a development office in Ekaterinburg.

Yandex begins collecting and publishing questions for the Internet conference of the First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on the site questions.yandex.ru.

Yandex has updated its Yandex.Goroda (Yandex Cities) project — the rating of cities with high Internet penetration. The number of participant cities has reached 50.

Yandex Bar for Firefox is able to search for blog comments about a web page and can display traffic conditions in Moscow according to Yandex grades.

Begun, Rambler, and Yandex assessed the volume of the context advertising market in the Russian Internet.

Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced preliminary financial results for the full-year 2006.

Yandex.Market introduces Favorite Shops service.

On the New Year's eve, the jury of Internet Mathematics 2007 announced the winners of the contest. Of 156 applications submitted for the competition, 31 projects were selected. According to the conditions of the contest, Yandex will finance half-year research projects of the winners for a total amount of RUB 5 million.

Starting today, LiveJournal paid accounts can be purchased using Yandex.Money.