Russian IT company ABBYY has removed all references to the company’s founder, Russian David Yan, from its website. A socialbites.ca correspondent pointed out this.
Originally Ian’s portrait and title appeared on the company website in the “Board” section. He was first on the list of co-owners of the company and signed as “founder and board member”.
Also, as socialbites.ca noted, David Yan’s profile disappeared from the ABBYY website. He listed the entrepreneur’s achievements and past projects. Like Yva.ai, Plazius, Cybiko and more.
The list of ABBYY board members in its previous form and David Yan’s profile can still be viewed using the Wayback Machine service.
It is not known whether Yang has been removed from the company’s board of directors. socialbites.ca sent a corresponding request to the ABBYY press service.
David Yan is a Russian entrepreneur specializing in artificial intelligence, founder of the ABBYY group of companies. He has lived permanently in the United States since 2011. Former member of the Council on Modernization and Innovation of the President of the Russian Federation. After the start of the SVO, he spoke harshly about the authorities of the Russian Federation and openly declared about the financing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Shortly before references to Ian were removed from the ABBYY website, the company was fired All employees with Russian citizenship. The outages affected the company’s offices in Cyprus, Belgrade and Budapest.
Later, ABBYY announced mass layoffs of Russians. caused by Transformation and modernization of the business.
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Source: Gazeta
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