The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny and his allies may not be running in the Sept. 19 parliamentary election but they had hoped to challenge President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party with a strategy known as “Smart Voting”.
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Euronews: What is Navalny’s Smart Voting app?
An illustration picture shows a smartphone screen displaying the "Smart Voting" - jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that aims to help Russians to vote out candidates from the ruling United Russia party in the upcoming polls, in Moscow on Sept. 16, 2021.