Russia's top internet portal Yandex said it has been forced to divulge financial details about the country's top anti-corruption activist to the Federal Security Service (FSB). Yandex said it was approached by the FSB about financial contributions made through its Yandex Dengi (Yandex Money) service to Alexei Navalny, a popular blogger who operates the RosPil whistleblowing website. RosPil and Navalny have used Yandex Dengi to raise about 6.2 million rubles ($225,000 dollars) for private efforts to expose corruption at senior levels of the Russian government. Navalny wrote on his blog last week that some of his contributors reported receiving threatening phone calls from unnamed people -- several of them posing as reporters -- who demanded to know why they gave money to the campaign. The news came just days after Yandex announced plans to list on New York's NASDAQ stock exchange. Yandex warned in its prospectus that its public offering was accompanied by political risks associated with efforts by the state to control Russian media companies.
http://www.lenta.ru/articles/2011/05/02/rospil/
http://www.france24.com/en/20110502-yandex-divulges-info-russian-anti-corruption-crusader
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