US tech giants remove Navalny voting app on Russia election day

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Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny's 'Smart Voting' app disappears from Apple and Google stores as Russians began voting in a three-day parliamentary election

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An illustration picture shows a smartphone screen displaying the"Smart Voting" - jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that aims to help Russians to vote out candidates from the ruling United Russia party in the upcoming polls. (AFP)

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny's 'Smart Voting' app has disappeared from Apple and Google stores on Friday as Russians began voting in a three-day parliamentary election marked by a historic crackdown on the opposition. "Removing the Navalny app from stores is a shameful act of political censorship," top Navalny ally Ivan Zhdanov said on Twitter.

The app promoted an initiative that outlines for Navalny supporters which candidate they should back to unseat Kremlin-aligned politicians.Russia had accused Google and Apple of election interference, demanding this week that they remove the app from their stores."We have the whole of the Russian state against us and even big tech companies," Navalny's team said on Telegram.

In a message from prison, Navalny had urged supporters to download the app that aims to help Russians to vote out candidates from the ruling United Russia party in the upcoming polls.who was detained in Januaryhas this year seen his organisations declared "extremist" and banned, while all his top aides have fled.

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