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Apple and Google capitulated to Russian authorities last week when they removed access to the Navalny Smart Voting app on the eve of the weekend’s parliamentary election. The move helped undermine Russian voters’ ability to access information about their choice.

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Big Tech companies that operate around the globe have long...

Kremlin''s party gets 324 of 450 seats in Russian parliament

Election authorities announced on Tuesday that Russia's ruling party will get 324 of the 450 seats in the upcoming national parliament.

Apple’s and Google’s cooperation with the Russian government’s efforts to suppress an app opposed to the ruling regime is escalating concerns about...

Created by allies of alexei navalny that sort of encouraged strategic voting. take us through what led to this decision and what impact it might have. >> yeah, well, first of all, the vast majority of opposition candidates or would-be candidates in this country have essentially been barred from standing in the election. theres only a handful of people on the ballots across the entire country. what alexei navalny did along with his associates is put out an app which gave people advice on what the...

Among putin and his inner circle, with the yachts and the mansions and the villas and the unexplained access to all of this massive wealth while theyre supposedly operating on civil servants salaries. they dropped this the day one of the election. vote them out using the system we have devised to beat putins party at the ballot box this weekend. use this system all over the country. we have explained it. we told you who our consolidated candidates are that will make system work and put it on our...

From russia, remove voting app. dateline moscow, apple and google removed an app meant to coordinate protest voting in this weekends russian elections, a blow to the owe opponents of vladimir putin. they were hoping to use it to consolidate the rote in each of russians 225 electoral districts. the app disappeared from the two technology platforms just as voting got under way. google and apple both took down the app. putins government pressured them, threatened them and they caved. they took nava...

Putins United Russia party is expected to ride to an overwhelming first place in the new parliament