I tried making my own search engine based on Nutch (sometime around 2000).
We created a directory of sites, with a strict selection, because. had experience in administering Dmoz, but these sites that were added to our catalog were indexed. Not deep, just 1 click from the main page.
But then we did not have enough capacity to carry out a good search.
Now I'm thinking about getting back to it. As part of one project that I am writing now (MIT license. Directory example: https://libarea.ru/web). We are experimenting, learning, facets for navigation, we will fasten the search later, there is still a lot of work.
I think that Russia definitely does not want to become a general gendarme who sticks his toe wherever he can and finds "his" interests wherever he can. Only a multipolar world, where each country will respect the other side and build peace on the basis of mutually beneficial cooperation. That's what the Russians think, that's what Putin said yesterday at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. There was a fairly large speech dedicated to this.