Russian company follows Russian propaganda rules, that's hardly news. It's pretty clear that concepts like "free press" and "freedom of information" aren't compatible with the Russian regime and expecting such features from a company operating mostly in Russia is kind of pointless. It should be obvious that anything Yandex (or any company targeting Russia, really) should be met with a good deal of scepticism. Companies like Yandex and Baidu can still deliver usable research, though, as long as you realise with what kind of perspective their code was written and their algorithm trained.
In a similar vain, Microsoft has censored "tank man" from their image search (and that of all their image search customers, such as DuckDuckGo). Google is a more transparent about their censorship, usually showing a link or explanation why they remove certain information at the bottom of the page, but it still reflects the values of western civilisation, for example by delisting Russian propaganda such as RT.
These biases are everywhere in all research into this field. The Russian situation is obviously worse than that in many other countries, but you should never forget the bias that AI models from free countries have been trained with either.
In a similar vain, Microsoft has censored "tank man" from their image search (and that of all their image search customers, such as DuckDuckGo). Google is a more transparent about their censorship, usually showing a link or explanation why they remove certain information at the bottom of the page, but it still reflects the values of western civilisation, for example by delisting Russian propaganda such as RT.
These biases are everywhere in all research into this field. The Russian situation is obviously worse than that in many other countries, but you should never forget the bias that AI models from free countries have been trained with either.