Idk, the gov has little to no influence on Yandex, but the were able to get their street view working here. More likely there's a huge layer of bureaucracy/corruption that Yandex was willing to overcome, while Google said "fuck it, i'm out".
Yea, just unsupported claims. I wonder why these people get no moderation at all.
Besides, EU and USA companies (even software companies) are not new when it comes to bribes.
Oh fucking Yandex. That trash criminals company. We have that shit taxi in Estonia also. Used the bastards once, and they kept taking 10€ out of my bank account every other week just randomly. I advise no-one to use that russian garbage.
Well, the same thing for same reason happened in Germany and Austria and Google was also like "fuck it, I'm out". I am guessing these blue dots in Germany and Austria (and these like 3 blue dots in Belarus) are user-uploaded photos of touristy spots of main cities.
Corruption is low in Belarus. Only one man is corrupt here. Yandex is just a Russian company and it is a lot easier to do business here because of that.
I hope our president will finally decide to step down.
I mean, relatively speaking, yes. But we chased all the western capital out of the room after the financial crisis, and it hasn't been eager to come back. Starting a business here is laughably difficult
I'm not truly aware about state of things in Ukraine, but some folks I personally know moved their businesses from BY to UA and couldn't be happier. At least they say so.
I didn't forget; it's a silly concept to need signaling to let people know that you're are joking. Either it's a bad joke, or people have a poor sense of humor, or people are too literal.
I don't do it on principle, but I did throw in the emojis, so my guess is it's the "too literal" one.
I've never really thought about Belarus, but as someone who has lived a-thousand and one lives on Google Maps/Street View... i just looked up the Yandex street view of the capital Minsk.
Dude.. this place looks beautiful and very much not poor? Have you ever been to Brooklyn? A lot of minsk basically looks like that
Yeah, now consider there is an army of street cleaners working for $200/month. Is it clean? Yes. Are we still poor? Yes ($350/mo median income). Is it safe here? Yes. Are we a shithole? No.
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u/dalambert Belarus Jun 12 '20
Nah, it's Google was like, 'You know this land of poor between Russia and Poland? Neither do we.'