The EU has lifted sanctions on Arkady Volozh, the founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, according to the latest entries to the official EU journal. Volozh was sanctioned in June 2022, and immediately resigned from all positions in Yandex. As followed by bne IntelliNews, the lawyers of Volozh had reportedly formally requested for the EU sanctions on him to be lifted back in August 2023. Their arguments are understood to have gained more traction after Volozh publicly condemned Russia’s “barbaric war” full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. However, this did not yield any results and sancti…