Google and Apple have removed an app developed by Russian activists supporting jailed Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Google and Apple have removed an app developed by Russian activists supporting jailed Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny from the Russian versions of their app stores,, after Russia accused the American technology companies of election interference.
The tactical voting app allows voters who do not want President Vladamir Putin’s ruling political party, United Russia, to win the electionin each of the 225 electoral districts in an effort to boost the number of non-Kremlin-approved politicians in power. “Removing the Navalny app from stores is a shameful act of political censorship,” said Ivan Zhdanov, a Navalny ally, in aApple and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Big Tech companies have come under intense pressure from the Russian government to take down content deemed illegal in the run-up to parliamentary and local elections that run Friday through Sunday.
Since mid-August, Russia’s federal censorship agency Roskomnadzor has threatened Apple and Google with fines if they didn’t remove Navalny’s tactical voting app from the App Store and Google Play store.
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