Absolutely. Where google is shaping results "to please corpo-political masters", Yandex is obviously influenced by the Kreml

I use Kagi as my daily driver. But there are some kinds of queries where my interests and Yandex's interests happen to align. Mostly anything corporate America wouldn't like, like evil copyright-infringing websites

Meduza gonna Meduza. Go do the search yourself. I get nothing like what Meduza claims.

You think Google doesn't do censorship? Or any mainstream search engine, for that matter?

It's the usual "I prefer censorship not targeted at/tailor made for me".

https://yandex.com/images/search?from=tabbar&text=%D0%B1%D1%...

For everyone to make the search themselves