Here's a nice article by the Moscow times about how Putin's regime relies on Russian engineers to build out it's surveillance and censorship apparatus: https://

Here's a nice article by the Moscow times about how Putin's regime relies on Russian engineers to build out it's surveillance and censorship apparatus: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/29/the-good-engineer-zima-a78431 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/29/the-good-engineer-... Yandex is very much a part of this strategy. It started out as a domestic competitor to Google and as Russia has been banning and censoring Google and other foreign services domestically, it became more important. So, this parent comment while obviously very political given current circumstances, is actually very on topic. Yandex is part of the information war on the ground in the Ukraine right now. And not just the Ukraine. Russia's sphere of influence spreads quite wide. A few practical considerations: - Would you use native libraries like this as part of your architecture that are controlled by people with a history of infiltrating e.g. voting machines, infrastructure used by media companies, etc. Believe what you will but that would be solid no for me just from a security point of view. There's just no way to know what piggybacks along with that code base. - Given the above, would you contribute to such a project and help the people behind it and further their goals? I'm sure it's technically great stuff, but no thanks.