Russia’s Yandex news svc head Isayeva quits over aggregator law

MOSCOW, Jul 26 (PRIME) -- Tatyana Isayeva, head of the Yandex.News aggregator, part of Russian Internet giant Yandex, has resigned due to a new law of news aggregators, she said on her Facebook account late Monday.

“I will no longer be the director of the Yandex.News service from August 1 at my own request. In this situation (the shackles of the endless chain (of news editor dismissals), the law on news aggregators), product management of a news aggregator is no longer such an interesting thing,” Isayeva said.

Her deputy Sergei Rubakov will replace her in the position, she said.

The law says that owners of news aggregators, whose audience exceeds 1 million users per day, must check authenticity of information of public importance prior to publication and delete it on request of the communications service from 2017.

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