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IFG-Bazis-Proekt acquired a historic building, the home of Mikhail Wawelberg, a banker well-known in the Russian Empire, during an auction held by the St. Petersburg government. The deal was worth 110 million rubles; the new owner wanted to turn the building into a hotel complex. But the project failed to materialize. IFG-Bazis-Proekt first became the property of Sberbank structures, then of the structures of businessman Nikolai Buinov, who opened the Wawelberg Hotel on the premises of the acquired building in 2021.

The VK holding (former Mail.ru Group) has abandoned its own search: uk whatsapp number list since November, the search field on mail.ru has started displaying the inscription “Yandex Search”.

"The update is related to the implementation of the company's overall strategy, the basis of which is the development of content services. We have tried to preserve the familiar interface for users using Yandex search and hope that the experience of using the new solution will be productive and enjoyable," Mail.ru support service said.
In response to Runet's request, an official representative of Yandex did not disclose the details of the deal, but only noted that the Yandex search bar appeared on the Mail.ru portal "in accordance with agreements with VK." The VK press service did not respond to the editorial staff's request.

Let us recall that from 2004 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2013, Mail.ru used Google search, and in 2007-2009, Yandex search. Since July 2013, the service has used its own search technologies.

According to Statcounter data for November 2022, Yandex ranks first in the search engine market in Russia with 51.86%, Google ranks second with 45.1%, followed by Bing with 2.19% and DuckDuckGo with 0.25%. Mail.ru search ranks only fifth with a share of 0.21%. The total search audience over the past three months has amounted to almost 19.5 million people, while Yandex has a figure of 1.2 billion people.