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Biography
2008
In 2008, Artem Savinovsky joined Yandex and began overseeing the company's financial statements, analytics and planning. He also participated in a number of projects, including the placement of the company's shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange and the Yandex.Taxi development strategy.
Prior to joining Yandex, Savinovsky worked in the audit division of Ernst & Young, where he was engaged in the provision of audit services to a number of large public companies in the field of technology, media and telecommunications.
2016
In May 2016, Savinovsky began to lead the media services department, responsible for the division's strategy and development of the company's leading services, including KinoPoisk, Yandex.Music and Yandex Plus.
2022: Appointment as CEO of Yandex
On April 14, 2022, Yandex announced the appointment of Artem Savinovsky as the new CEO of the company. Prior to that, he headed the company's media services.
Artem Savinovsky from April 15, 2022 officially became the general director of Yandex instead of Elena Bunina, who remained to work in the company as an HR director. According to the publication about The Bell, Bunina left Russia for Israel at the end of February 2022, where she works as an HR director of Yandex's local office. Bunina said that she does not plan to return to the Russian Federation, as she opposes the Russian special operation in Ukraine.
In March 2022, it was announced that Tigran Khudaverdyan would be the new CEO of Yandex instead of Elena Bunina. However, a day after his appointment, he left the post because he fell under the sanctions of the European Union.
Savinovsky will combine the post of general director with the position of head of the media services department, which he has been heading since 2016. This division includes Yandex.Music, Yandex.Afisha, Yandex.Teleprogram and Kinopoisk, in 2018 it became a separate company.[1]
2023: Fine of 200 thousand rubles for films with LGBT people at Kinopoisk
On August 2, 2023, the magistrate of the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow fined Yandex CEO Artem Savinovsky 200 thousand rubles for showing films on the Kinopoisk service with LGBT demonstrations without the 18 + label. Savinovsky drew up a protocol under Part 2 of Article 6.21.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (dissemination among minors of information demonstrating non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences or capable of causing minors to want to change their gender).
As reported TASS with reference to the materials of the case, announced in court, the employees Roskomnadzor noticed that the films "Greed," "Green Book," "Ideal Strangers," "Edges of Reason," "Bridget Jones Diary" and other films, which contain information about non-traditional sexual relations. At the same time, films are marked with the mark "16 +" instead of the law "18 +." After that, Roskomnadzor drew up a protocol on an administrative offense against Savinovsky.
Representatives of Artem Savinovsky noted in court that they did not agree with the conclusions of Roskomnadzor. In their opinion, the department did not prove that minors could watch these films at Kinopoisk. Moreover, according to the rules of the company, minors can subscribe to this service.
Yandex said that we are talking about a protocol according to which Kinopoisk has already been fined on July 4, 2023. The company stressed that it replaced age labeling with "18 +" as soon as the law began to demand. The law and regulations in their current form do not provide sufficient objective criteria to determine the demonstration of non-traditional relations, Yandex said on August 2, 2023[2]+[3]
2024: Appointment as Director of MKAO Yandex
On April 10, 2024, it became known about the appointment of Artem Savinovsky as the new general director of MKPAO Yandex, the future holding structure of Yandex's Russian assets. He will take office on April 23, 2024 and replace Marina Korneva in this post.
As of April 11, 2024, Savinovsky holds the post of head of the Russian Yandex, the company has been working since 2008. Initially, he was responsible for financial reporting and planning, and then headed the media services department, was responsible for the division's strategy and development of services, including KinoPoisk, Yandex.Music and Yandex.Plus.
The fact that the board of directors of MKPAO Yandex decided to terminate the powers of the general director Marina Korneva and appoint Savinovsky instead, it became known a month after the government approved the sale of Yandex for 457.3 billion rubles. This amount was estimated at 96.3 percent of the company's shares, which will be bought from the Dutch Yandex N.V. After the sale of Yandex NV will cease to be the parent company of the group, the International Joint Stock Company (MKAO) Yandex will become the new parent structure.
The company will be managed by the Yandex management team, which will retain the right to make key decisions. To do this, a "Fund of Managers" was created: it will receive special rights and veto power when making decisions on special issues at the board of directors and the general meeting of shareholders.
The first stage of closing the deal should take place before April 30, 2024.[4]
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