Google removed the Navalny app due to threats from the Russian authorities

Google removed the Navalny app from the Russian Google Play store following threats from the Russian authorities to open a case against the company’s employees in Russia. About it writes The New York Times.

According to the source of the publication, the names of specific people who work in the Russian branch of Google were named, against whom the authorities could initiate criminal proceedings.

Earlier it became known that Google and Apple have removed the Navalny application from the Russian Google Play and App Store stores.

On the eve of the first deputy head of the international committee of the Federation Council, FSB General Vladimir Dzhabarov threatened employees of Google and Apple offices with criminal cases if they did not remove the application, which, among other things, has the Smart Voting function.

“Structures and personalities associated with Apple and Google should be aware that their deliberately illegal actions and criminal inaction after receiving appropriate warnings from Russian officials will inevitably have legal consequences for them, including criminal ones,” Dzhabarov said.

According to him, the presence of the Navalny application on Apple and Google platforms violates Russian electoral legislation.