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January 15, 2014 04:05 am GMT

Facebook Makes Inroads in Russia With Yandex Partnership

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Facebook is turning up the heat on its quest for users in Russia.

Russian search engine Yandex will now return public Facebook posts and comments in its search results as part of a partnership announced Tuesday. Yandex announced the partnership Tuesday on its website, and Facebook posts will appear for Yandex users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey.

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The relationship is a big step for Facebook, which competes with a Russian social network called VK, or Vkontakte, a network Mark Zuckerberg called a Facebook "clone" back in October Read more...

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