This is just bizarre:

The Chinese authorities have turned to Yandex having finished with Google, LiveJournal, and Wikipedia. So, finally, according to some sources, Chinese internet-users were denied the access to www.yandex.ru. However, Yandex accounts its site faulty operations not for any governmental political decision, but for difficulties experienced by a certain internet provider.

I can understand the news about Google, Yahoo, MSN, but Yandex? A Russian-language search engine that brings up results highly irrelevant to anyone living outside of Russia… There must be here something more than what’s on the cover.

So What is It? Here are my answers:

• Powerplay between Beijing and Moscow
• Punish increasing numbers of Russians in China (or an attempt to curb population growth of illegal Russians
• Preventing Chinese people from accessing vast amount of porn (quite common in Russian culture) on Yandex
• Finally, a simple mistake by an IT technician at one of the major ISPs…

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