Google and Apple have removed an app developed by Russian activists supporting jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny from the Russian versions of their app stores, his team says.
“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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