Polling stations opened in Russia's westernmost region, Kaliningrad, at 08:00 local time. Voting for the Duma thus began across the country. The voting process will last three days (17, 18 and 19 September). In addition to the Duma elections, voters will go to the polls to vote for the heads of nine Russian regions (in three other regions local legislatures will elect top executive officials) and in elections for 39 regional parliaments. Tass reports it. App removed from stores Allies of jailed Russian opponent Aleksei Navalny have accused Google and Apple of removing their "smart" voting application from their respective platforms on the first day of parliamentary elections. "Remove theNavalny's app from platforms is a shameful act of political censorship. The authoritarian government and Russian propaganda will be delighted, "tweeted activist Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation. The app promotes an initiative that allows Navalny supporters to vote in each college for the candidate who has a better chance of beating opponents of United Russia, the party of President Vladimir Putin. Russia accused Google and Apple of election interference, demanding that the app be removed from their stores. "Companies have succumbed to the Kremlin's blackmail, he said. commented Navalny's ally in exile, Leonid Volkov. "We have the entire Russian state against us and even the big tech companies," the Navalny team denounced on Telegram.who on the eve of the vote urged Russian voters to support the candidates of the Communist Party. At the beginning of August, the Russian Ministry of Justice entered three organizations founded by Navalny in the register of banned organizations: the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights and the network of regional offices, which had already closed in the previous months for avoid legal repercussions for their employees. The entities had already been included in the list of "foreign agents" and "extremist organizations".the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights and the network of regional offices, already closed in the previous months to avoid legal repercussions for their employees. The entities had already been included in the list of "foreign agents" and "extremist organizations".the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights and the network of regional offices, already closed in the previous months to avoid legal repercussions for their employees. The entities had already been included in the list of "foreign agents" and "extremist organizations".
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September 17, 2021 Polling stations opened in Russia's westernmost region, Kaliningrad, at 08:00 local time. Voting for the Duma thus began across the country. The voting process will last three days (17, 18 and 19 September). In addition to the Duma elections, voters will go to the polls to vote for the heads of nine Russian regions (in three other regions local legislatures will elect top executive officials) and in elections for 39 regional parliaments. Tass reports it.
App removed from stores
Allies of jailed Russian opponent Aleksei Navalny have accused Google and Apple of removing their "smart" voting application from their respective platforms on the first day of parliamentary elections.
"Removing the Navalny app from platforms is a shameful act of political censorship. The authoritarian government and Russian propaganda will be delighted," tweeted activist Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation.
The app promotes an initiative that allows Navalny supporters to vote in each college for the candidate who has the best chance of beating the opponents of United Russia, the party of President Vladimir Putin.
Russia accused Google and Apple of election interference, demanding that the app be removed from their stores. "The companies have succumbed to the Kremlin's blackmail, commented Navalny's ally in exile, Leonid Volkov." We have the entire Russian state against us and even the big tech companies, "the Navalny team reported on Telegram. who on the eve of the vote urged Russian voters to support the candidates of the Communist Party.
At the beginning of August, the Russian Ministry of Justice entered three organizations founded by Navalny in the register of banned organizations: the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights and the network of regional offices, which had already closed in the previous months for avoid legal repercussions for their employees. The entities had already been included in the list of "foreign agents" and "extremist organizations".
