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MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia's crowning cyberspace portal Yandex said weekday it has been unnatural to divulge business info most the country's crowning anti-corruption crusader to the coercive agent Security Service (FSB).

The programme came meet life after the fast-rising Slavonic cyberspace giant announced plans to list on New York's NASDAQ hit exchange.

The favourite search engine said it was approached by the FSB most business contributions made through its Yandex Dengi (Yandex Money) assist to Alexei Navalny -- a favourite blogger who operates the RosPil whistleblowing website.

RosPil and Navalny hit used Yandex Dengi to raise most 6.2 meg rubles ($225,000 dollars) for private efforts to guy corruption at senior levels of the Slavonic government and at whatever of the country's large state-held firms.

Navalny wrote on his blog terminal hebdomad that whatever of his contributors reported receiving threatening phone calls from unnamed grouping -- individual of them move as reporters -- who demanded to undergo why they gave money to the campaign.

A crowning Yandex authorised addicted on weekday that the consort had been unnatural to promulgation info most both the contributors and Navalny after being approached by the FSB.

"We ourselves are sorry most the status and deal our users' outrage," Yandex chief application Yelena Kolmanovskaya told Moscow Echo radio.

"After our lawyers look into things, we will undergo what we crapper do most it," the Yandex authorised added.

Navalny has recently been filing claims in suite to receive huffy business disclosures from crowning Slavonic companies such as the state-controlled lubricator giant Rosneft and the Transneft lubricator scuttlebutt operators.

Yandex was approached by the FSB after warning in a prospectus terminal hebdomad that its open substance was attended by political risks related with efforts by the land and various business interests to control Slavonic media companies.

The cyberspace concern has not still observed the turn of ordinary shares it plans to substance on NASDAQ or the estimated price arrange of the stock.

Earlier Slavonic advise reports said Yandex -- which represents Russia's important rival to Google -- intended to raise up to $1 1000000000 through the offering.

Yandex had designed to delude up to 20 proportionality of its shares in New York before the start of the orbicular 2008 orbicular business crisis unnatural it to defer the

Analysts judge that Yandex was worth most $3 1000000000 before the crisis and that its continuance may today hit climbed to $8 billion.

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