Managing Director of Yandex Tigran Khudaverdyan said which manufacturers are not going to make Yandex services non-removable on their devices. He previously stated that the company has never approached its partners in the production of phones, tablets or TVs with a request to do so, and has not entered into any agreements on this matter.

“We contacted all vendors. They have already answered and confirmed that they will not install applications indelible: Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, Vivo, ZTE, F Plus, Meizu, Prestigio. To partners – thanks for the promptness “, – said Khudaverdyan in his post on Facebook.

The law on the mandatory pre-installation of domestic software on gadgets sold in Russia was supposed to come into force on July 1, 2020, but due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the dates had to be postponed, first to January 1, 2021, and then to April 1. The list of Russian applications that manufacturers are required to preinstall on smartphones includes browsers, instant messengers, social networks, news aggregators, antiviruses, cloud storage – 16 items in total.

One of the leaders in the smartphone market, Samsung has already begun to implement the law on the pre-installation of Russian software, releasing a software update for a number of its devices on March 31.