Apple, Google remove Navalny app before Russian voting begins

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The app Smart Voting is displayed connected an iPhone surface successful Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. Facing Kremlin pressure, Apple and Google connected Friday removed from their online stores an opposition-created smartphone app that tells voters which candidates are apt to decision those backed by Russian authorities, arsenic polls opened successful Russia's parliamentary election. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Posted at 6:51 PM, Sep 17, 2021

and past updated 2021-09-17 19:51:30-04

Apple and Google removed an absorption app anterior to an predetermination successful Russia.

The app, created by those associated with Alexey Navalny, was pulled for the online stores up of this weekend's parliamentary elections, CNN reported.

The app reportedly offered recommendations astir absorption candidates successful an effort to yet dethrone Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to Reuters, the Kremlin enactment unit connected Apple and Goole to region the app, which it equated to "election interference."

Navalny was sentenced to situation clip aft returning to the state pursuing his poisoning. Navalny accused Putin of being down the attack.

Russia faced sanctions from galore countries for the poisoning of Navalny.

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