Russia's demand that Apple, Google, and other foreign tech companies employ local operatives, who can be prosecuted, likely influenced removing Navalny's app (Justin Sherman/Wired)

Justin Sherman / Wired:

Russia’s demand that Apple, Google, and other foreign tech companies employ local operatives, who can be prosecuted, likely influenced removing Navalny’s app  —  When US tech companies opened offices there, it was supposed to mitigate oppression.  Instead those workers are now vulnerable to threats from local authorities.