https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/apple-defies-russian-government-restores-opposition-voting-app/

Apple has restored an app sponsored by Alexei Navalny, a prominent leader of Russia's political opposition, to the company's Russian app store. Apple took down the app last September, days before Russia's legislative elections, under pressure from the Russian government.

Russian voters went to the polls last September to elect representatives to five-year terms in the Duma, Russia's legislature. Russia does not have free and fair elections, so no one expected Putin's party, United Russia, to lose its majority. But opposition figures like Navalny still saw the election as an important opportunity to register public disapproval of Putin's regime. To help Russia's fractious opposition parties coordinate, Navalny created an app that listed endorsements for hundreds of candidates.