Russian tech firm Yandex said on Tuesday it had removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s tactical voting website from its search engine to comply with a government ban ahead of a parliamentary election this month.
Navalny and his allies want to use the website and a separate app, dubbed ‘Smart Voting,’ to organise a tactical voting campaign at the Sept. 17-19 contest to land a blow against the ruling United Russia party.
Yandex said the tactical voting website had been deleted from its search engine automatically due to the designation from Internet regulator Roskomnadzor.
A court has also banned Yandex from using the phrase “smart voting” in its keyword search system, but the firm says it plans to appeal against that ruling.
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