"Firefox now allows"
more than a side step or a two step it's going to be a whole dance where they remember that, oh ya hey!, look, users!.
Exactly where did all, ALL, the horking huge piles of money go?, which in the current political environment could be a question that not only get's asked, but answered
Yandex.com has divested from yandex.ru and the former is nominally not based in Russia.
I personally believe they are still 100% managed by Russia, as I'm sure you do, but this is all feels and not facts. Facts is yandex.com isn't sanctioned so that can't/shouldn't be your reason for wanting to silence them.
Uhm, no, you must not be allowed to use a Russian search engine under any circumstances. That would be undemocratic and against free speech principles.
You can just type in the URL and make it your default search engine. No one is stopping you. Or you could just move to Russia and bask in that democracy and free speech you seem to perceive to be lacking here. Again no one is stopping you.
Completely agree. Any citizen who doesn't agree with our democratic and inclusive values should be immediately stripped of rights and shipped off to Russia.