Also in June 2008, Yandex acquired SMILink, a Russian road traffic monitoring agency, which was merged into Yandex Maps. In 2008, Yandex increased bandwidth between its Moscow data centers and UA-IX in Ukraine fivefold. In September 2005, Yandex opened an office in Ukraine and launched a Ukrainian website. In 2000, Baring Vostok Capital Partners acquired 35.72% of the company for…