INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Alexei Kudrin, stepped down Tuesday as the head of the country's Audit Chamber amid
reports he will oversee the reconstruction of tech giant Yandex following sanctions over Ukraine.Kudrin, a former finance minister who has a
reputation of being an economic liberal in Moscow, has been in Russian politics since the 1990s.The 62-year-old said he was "leaving the
post of Chairman of the Audit Chamber" after "around 25 years in the public sector.""Now I would like to focus on large projects that are
related to the development of private initiatives in a broad sense, but at the same time have a significant impact on people."He held the
post since 2018, appointed after Putin was re-elected for a fourth term in the Kremlin.Last week, Russian state news agency TASS reported
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said it will weigh "options to restructure the group's ownership and governance in light of the current geopolitical environment."It said
from Russia."It added that the company "anticipates" that it will "in due course be renamed."Yandex said it could "divest ownership and
control of all other businesses in the Yandex Group," such as advertising, e-commerce and food delivery.This summer Yandex said it was
