Last week, CTO of the Russian Internet Company Yandex Ilya Sigalović made his first appearance at the next web conference 2012 in Amsterdam. During the first day of the event, he took part in a panel discussion about startups working on emerging markets, such as CES countries or a late in America. After that, we had a short conversation. This is your first time at the next web. How do you like the Kyrgyzstan? I think it's a great conference and lots of interesting startups and great audience of Europe. I'm not talking about Europe. You did participate in this panel about emerging markets today. What's the main message you wanted to bring to the audience with us? My message is go to Russia and try to think Russian needs more Russian and also more widely in America. You're praying in CES countries. They need more interesting startups from Europe and the United States because I think the opportunity is a great and just don't be afraid of coming to China. Why do you think that CES countries need more startups from outside? What's the problem with growing open startups in these countries? There's no problem during all startups, but I think we require more high level of interesting competition and more strong competition from the same company, Staling-Torussian. I think it's not that hard to translate the interface and other hard to translate some other, to localize some other things to make up and the things better for Russia. Also, it will raise the level of development in the state Russia because it requires some high level. But in Russia, as I understood from the panel in Brazil as well, there are many companies that adjust to make copies of successful Western startups. Is this a big problem in Europe in the end for Western startups to enter the Russian market? I mean copying is not a scene, first of all. I'm very agnostic to copying or not copying. The question here is, is your startup, is your service really required? You really needed to buy your audience. The focus is targeting to your audience is probably the key here. Is it like how fast we copied a white combinator? One week or no, three weeks is too late. It doesn't matter. One matters is not the code being something but some particular smart idea. But look carefully at what these people need now and help them right now. Because the environment in which Russia and the Russian internet exist is already fine pretty much. So what is missing here? What is missing in China? What is something that people probably need? Because they use this particular tool and you can improve on top of that. It's moving target. You cannot bring some food in the smartness of how it flows. We should be careful. What is really needed? So you transmit the method that Western startups should not be afraid of entering the Russian market. Maybe you have something to help them. We are going to do that in several months from now. We are going to announce a program but it's still a little bit to say. I hope we will help the Western startup. Now a question about a different topic. I remember senior Twitter for Electronics and Guardian. They made mistakes in the podium. What did you say and what you didn't say? You know, it was a good question. It was a long conversation with a group of people. At the end there was a topic, some in between different people. One of the journalists who was kind of taking some phrases and words out of a long conversation, putting it into one sort of interview like I was against Google. It's a little different. I think Google is first of all a great company. It works a lot to open the internet. That's important statement that I didn't sound in that particular way. Another story is that the conversation and dialogue between Google and Facebook and Apple is not my area of love. It's not my competence. I'm not competent in dialogue. I'm not going to interrupt or say something in between. It's totally out of my scope. The third thing I wanted to tell is that Yandex itself was always for openness and for making other searches available. If you look at the search engine without the Google, you'll know this link to Google. We'll never hear a hint. Other search engines from our users, because we've thought always since 90s, that one thing should not make it all. Yandex is not the cinema for it. It's just a good search engine. But there are some others. You may not find something. At the end, it's what you may find something and you keep it somewhere else. There are some particular queries, some particular search engine, and that's how we treat ourselves. I believe that is a great way to treat everything. You would basically go to the same and give users an opportunity to get started out of my competence. To advise them what they should do. I'm just expressing my attitude to the people. I'm not saying I'm not advising anyone. Okay, thank you very much.