Pursuits
Putin's New Internet Czar Wants Apple and Google to Pay More Taxes
- `We are breeding the cow and they are milking it': Klimenko
- Google's reach considered national security threat to Russia
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When he’s not checking Gmail on his MacBook, Vladimir Putin’s new Internet czar can’t stop railing against American technology companies.
Google, Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp., collectively worth more than Russia’s gross domestic product, have all entered German Klimenko’s crosshairs since he was named Putin’s first Internet adviser six weeks ago.