Google Has Rogue Agents In Russia?

Google in July was supposed to have gone through with their acquisition of Russian contextual advertising company Begun
A combination of Begun and Google AdSense caused monopoly accusations by the Russian government, who began an anti-trust investigation of them last month.
One of the requirements of Google in the investigation was to give complete information about each of the personnel that Google had in Russia.
Google refused to give up the information and now the deal is reportedly cancelled.
Russia is one of the remaining markets that Google cannot seem to grasp the number 1 spot. What kind of rogues are scoping out the competition there inside Rambler and others?

Svetlana Gladkova

Well, the obvious suggestion is that Google is not that capable to work in Russia efficiently while another major company working in contextual advertising - Yandex (the search engine and portal that is pondering an IPO for some time next year) - obviously understands the realities here much better. But that is just a theory, no proof or evidence of this!

glu

@Svetlana Gladkova -
Thanks for the update. Have you seen Google gain any traction lately? If so, what types of people are using it?
What is Yandex doing that Google could use to improve themselves?