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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. there's 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 they called smart voting. which candidate to vote for that had the most chance of sort of unseating th...
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 they're 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 putin's 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 website. we expect them to block our website. the russian government can do that. if they block ...
From russia, remove voting app. dateline moscow, apple and google removed an app meant to coordinate protest voting in this weekend's russian elections, a blow to the owe opponents of vladimir putin. they were hoping to use it to consolidate the rote in each of russian's 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. putin's government pressured them, threatened them and they caved. they took navalny's smart voting app down just as russians start voting. apple and google, of course, yes, both...
Putin's United Russia party is expected to ride to an overwhelming first place in the new parliament