Navalny allies accuse YouTube, Telegram of censorship in Russian election


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  • Saturday, 18 Sep 2021

Observers watch a live broadcast from polling stations at the Moscow Public Election Monitoring Center during the second day of a three-day long vote in parliamentary elections in Moscow, Russia September 18, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's allies accused YouTube and Telegram of censorship on Saturday after the video platform and messaging app restricted access to their anti-government voting recommendations for Russia's parliamentary election.

Navalny's allies already accused Alphabet's Google and Apple of buckling under Kremlin pressure on Friday after the companies removed an app from their stores that the activists had hoped to use against the ruling party at the election.

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