For the Yandex taxi drivers, the merger with Uber is no progress. They complain bitterly that working conditions are now much worse, compensation schemes for canceled journeys have been abolished and the payments per assignment are considerably less than with Uber.

It is now quite common among drivers to ask the customer to cancel the order as soon as they have taken their seat in the car. In this way, the driver does not have to pay a commission and the consumer pays slightly less.

Yandex is not only Russia's largest search engine. The company offers consumers more than 70 services, including a taxi center and a payment system. n 2018, Yandex merged with the US taxi service Uber. In practice it was more of an acquisition.

Yandex founder Arkadi Volozj can't resist in 2017. During his search engine's 20th birthday party, he subtly points out that he was a year earlier than world market leader Google, officially launched in 1998.

Yandex's position creates tensions with the FSB.

Two years later, Yandex with almost 110 million users of its search engine - that is 75% of the Russian population, more than 20% uses Google - and dozens of online services are indispensable in Russian society. "We are the Silicon Valley of Russia," technology chief Michael Parachin told Bloomberg news agency in late June.

In the first quarter of 2019, Yandex increased its sales by more than € 506 million, an increase of 40% compared to the same period in 2018. Profit increased by more than € 42 million, a plus of 69%, according to the FD.

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