He noted that Yandex did not ask any of the partners to make their applications indelible. 

He also noted that the law on the preinstallation of Russian software on gadgets does not require non-removability.

“We turned to Samsung and other vendors with a request not to do this with our applications - not to install Yandex applications without the possibility of uninstallation,” he said.

Earlier, the Kommersant newspaper wrote that Samsung, when updating the system, began to install three Yandex services on users' smartphones, which cannot be removed.

In December, it was reported that the Ministry of Digital Science formed a list of about 30 applications for pre-installation on devices.