In Russia the government strengthened its hold over the internet when VK, the state-controlled social-media company, agreed to buy the news assets and homepage of Yandex, the country's biggest search engine.

俄罗斯国有社交媒体公司VK同意收购该国最大的搜索引擎Yandex公司的新闻资产和主页时，该国政府加强了对互联网的控制。