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Yandex search shows locally relevant results for web users living in the cities which have enough websites with local content.

Yandex search users can now find local businesses or organizations in a particular area of the city or around a certain metro station.

Yandex.Maps has added a new photo layer.

Yandex has updated its Catalog.

Yandex.Market comparison shopping service now considers delivery charges in its product and price listings.

The Yandex.Timetable service has added information about international and domestic flights all over the world.

Yandex search offers automated translation of foreign websites into Russian.

Starting today, apart from refrigerators or televisions, users of the Yandex.Market service can also find and choose presents.

Yandex launches Yandex.Cities, a service offering local information for users living in cities.

The Yandex.Bar browser extension offers its users instant word translation.

Yandex users in Ukraine can now choose between Russian or Ukrainian languages when using Yandex.

Yandex offers its users to have a look at interesting sculptures, birds and animals, along with an opportunity to watch videos from all over the world and much more.

Yandex shows current traffic conditions on a specified route.

Yandex offers domain owners an opportunity to create an electronic mail account with any name they choose, including their personal name, as in ivan@theterrible.ru or peter@thegreat.ru.

Yandex now features music by Russian artists. Those looking for songs in Russian can now listen to these songs in full length, good quality and free of change, right on the top of the Yandex search results.

Yandex launches a portal for Kazakhstan. The new www.yandex.kz offers all key services provided by Yandex customized for web users in this country.

Mobile Yandex.Maps can now find a company or a business by name or by industry. Company search is available for users in more than a hundred cities in Russia and in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev.

Yandex has updated maps for Kiev, Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk.

Yandex releases a new, location-specific search platform, Arzamas, in 19 cities of Russia.

Yandex.Traffic has expanded its coverage to include four more cities — Samara, Krasnodar, Kazan in Russia, and Kharkiv in Ukraine. Drivers in these cities can now check traffic conditions before starting out.

Yandex N.V., owner of 100% of the Russian Yandex, issues a Priority Share in the name of the OJSC “Savings Bank of the Russian Federation” (“Sberbank”).

Yandex.Maps shows road junctions in Kiev. Now drivers can study complex road junctions in advance so that they don’t miss their exit.

Yandex.Direct offers users of mobile devices a fast way to contact providers of products and services. They can make a call just by clicking on Call in the ad displayed in the mobile Yandex search results.

Yandex releases a new mobile client for its Yandex.Mail service. Now, users can have access to all the key features of their online Yandex.Mail account even when they are offline.

Yandex.Maps shows “Panoramic views" of the streets. Now web users can see the streets of Moscow in detail and even take a walk around.

Yandex has announced a special offer for its advertising clients in the regions.

Yandex.Market launches store locator to find offline locations of online stores. Now, customers can see right on the map where they can pick up their purchase.

Yandex offers webmasters a new opportunity to generate revenue. Now they can use the Yandex.Site service to add a search feature to their site and make money showing relevant ads in search results.

Yandex and ICQ announce their co-branded client. Now, those who are used to communicating via ICQ will also have the Yandex search and services at hand.

Yandex now shows live traffic webcams of the busiest streets and roads in Moscow.

The Yandex.Maps service now provides traffic maps for Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Rostov-on-Don.

Yandex.Direct has completed testing its Light interface.

Yandex.Maps now offers its users an opportunity to view their routes (GPS tracks) on a computer and email them to others. Using the new functionality, people can share their walking or driving routes with friends.

Yandex launches beta version of Punto Switcher for Mac OS X. Having installed the company’s automated keyboard layout switcher, Apple computers owners can forget about what alphabet, Cyrillic or Latin, they are using.

Mozilla Foundation rolled out a new version of their Firefox browser. The 3.5 version for Russian language users has Yandex as the default search engine.

Yandex.Dictionaries updated the latest version of ABBYY Lingvo Online Dictionary. In addition to word translations, the service now offers pronunciation samples by professional native speakers.

Today, Yandex celebrates the first graduation at Yandex School of Data Analysis founded in 2007. This year, over 30 students graduate from the two-year Master program. Some of them will be offered to join Yandex.

Yandex.Money, the proprietary online payment system, now offers a new way of protecting user payments: the new option “Strengthened Authorization” allows users not to enter their Yandex.Money password any longer. Now, instead of the password, users can enter a one-time code while making their online transfers.

Yandex updates its free web hosting service Narod.ru.

MoiKrug – a professional networking, recruitment and employment service – catalogues employers.

Yandex.Maps offers detailed maps of every administrative center in Ukraine to help users navigate the streets in any of the largest Ukrainian cities.

The only Yandex Cup Winners’ Cup game took place today. Alexey Tcharykov won the title of the “Winner of the Cup Winners’ Cup”.

Yandex releases a new version of its Yandex.Mail service for beta testing. The updated Yandex.Mail offers every feature needed for online communication today.

Yandex notifies its users of infected webpages to protect their computers from malicious content.

Yandex launches an information service tracking changes in search patterns of web users.

Yandex launches location-aware search for mobile devices. Now, mobile web users do not have to ask around when they need to find the nearest McDonalds outlet, drugstore or coffee shop.

Summer is coming and soon pallid urbanites will start flocking to the countryside. For the start of the summer season, Yandex has made a timetable of local trains in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Veliky Novgorod, Tyumen and Nizhny Tagil.

Yandex makes its web statistics analysis tool Metrica available to every website owner or webmaster. Yandex.Metrica allows customers to measure traffic, analyse user behavior and evaluate the efficiency of advertising campaigns.

Yandex launches a program to support websites offering local content.

Yandex announces the start of the yearly online project 18.yandex.ru that lists museum programs, exhibitions and events during Historical and Cultural Heritage Days.

Yandex.Maps launched integrated world map with integrated search.

Yandex releases mobile version of the Ya.Online (“I’m.Online”) application for Windows Mobile, Symbian and Java platforms.

Yandex opens a sales office in Ekaterinburg. The regional commercial office will concentrate on promoting Yandex’s advertising products both through partners and directly to consumers.

Yandex’s car search service Yandex.Auto now features information on new car models that officially go on sale in Russia.

HeadHunter, Mail.Ru and Yandex joined effort to offer new opportunities for job seekers and employers.

Yandex published an information bulletin on Russian online mass media.

A Yandex.Money account can now be linked with an Alfa-Bank account.

Yandex announced preliminary unaudited financial results for 2008.

Yandex.Traffic is now available for GPS navigation. Users of the navigation programs Autosputnik and Mobile Navigator can now plan their routes based on the information about traffic jams and clear roads.