Today, Yandex will launch an alpha version of the search on foreign sites, available at yandex.com . At the moment, in the database of the search engine there are about 4 billion indexed foreign pages, which, according to Yandex itself, accounts for 4% of all pages indexed by the world search engines. While the company is not going to advertise its search on the international market, and the service is intended for Russian users, however, we can expect that very soon Yandex will still enter the global search engine scene. We wish him good luck! ')
Ps. I think that soon the corresponding news will appear in the official blog of “Yandex”. Here she is Pps. "Yandex" was published ("Vedomosti")