The russian ride service started sending strange messages to taxis

Ride application Yango changes were confused by Finnish taxi drivers.

Yango, a Russian background, sent a message to the drivers who used the service this week telling you about one -sided termination of the contracts.

According to the document seen by HS, the agreements will break on 1 March, tomorrow Saturday.

According to HS, the announcement on a hasty schedule caused confusion in the taxi industry. Some suspect that the service is being drowned.

Yangon The original owner is the Russian search engine company Yandex. Western sanctions struck Yandex in Russia after the offensive war in Ukraine three years ago. Since then, two different companies have written about Yandex. The original company is still Yandex still operating in Russia, the other is Nabius, who holds its headquarters in the Netherlands.

The CEO of Nabius is the founder of Yandex Arcadi Volož. He has lived in Israel since 2014.

HS Pursuled Yango through several different channels, and finally its international PR representation by email that the service is not stopped:

“No, Yango is not leaving the Finnish market. Yango is committed to Finland and our services will continue without interruption. ”

According to the company, this is about changing the service to the “franchise model”. Yango was previously responded by a Dutch company called Ridetech International.

Now it is transferred to a Norwegian company called Sentra Oslo Cabs, which still has Suomen -branch Cabs TEK Oy.

Norway and Finland are Yango’s only domains in Europe. In the Baltic countries, for example, it was banned after Russia attacked Ukraine.

HS asked the company how the service could continue without interruption if the drivers had no contracts. The company had not been answered by three in the afternoon.

One The message about the goddess is a part -time taxi entrepreneur Hannu Heikkinen From Espoo.

He took the rides with Yango even before the war started by Russia. Then he stopped using it, but the contact information was still on the service, so the message came to him too.

“The impression that these have written somewhere,” Heikkinen says of the intricate text.

He is not affected by him because he has not driven any Yango rides for many years. However, the service had one benefit.

“I had no particular reason to defend Yango, but it brought positive competition from the platform economy’s point of view.”

The platform economy is now largely in the hands of American Uber and Estonian Bolt. According to HS, Yango has remained a underdog because consumers have avoided it due to the Russian connection.

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“The impression that these are some law firm somewhere.”

It Started in Finland aggressively in 2018. The taxi ride was received in Helsinki for a few euros and can be paid in cash. According to Heikkinen, dill pricing also brought problems when all kinds of people were aboard.

As such, the connection between the entrepreneur and the service was loose:

“In a way, Yango only provided that app, customers and money, but then I myself am an entrepreneur who takes care of the service, equipment, cars and so on.”

It was visibly in the headlines in the fall of 2023 when Russia entered into force New taxi law.

The fear was that the Russian security service would get access to Finnish Yango customers. The Data Protection Commissioner suspended the disclosure of information to Russia but Allow the service of the service about a month later.

The reason was that, according to new reports, Russian taxi legislation would not apply to Yango’s activities in Finland.