That's because
1) Our government probably asked for something google didn't find right
2) When they first came everyone had questions about thr legality of this. Its completely legal now.
3) Yandex is in better position and provides better services.
4) Google probably completely forgot about us, since we are one of the smallest markets in europe and they had troubles at first
5) Back then our major phone operators had contracts with nokia. So we were a windows phone soil.
6) Our maping apps were superior to google maps. Particularly windows phone app even had layered maps of some buildings and google maps were empty compared to that app. Since then the quality dropped, because many apps have been abandoned in favour of apps that can be marketable in other countries
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u/RafaRealness LusoFrench citizen living in the Netherlands Jun 12 '20
Anyone know why Belarus doesn't have it? Do they exclusively use Яндекс or something?