#Putin’s prewar moves against U.S. tech giants laid groundwork for #crackdown on free expression
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/12/russia-putin-google-apple-navalny/
Russian agents came to the home of Google’s top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September: take down an app that had drawn the ire of Russian President Vladimir #Putin within 24 hours or be taken to #prison.
Google quickly moved the woman to a hotel where she checked in under an assumed name and might be protected by the presence of other guests and hotel security, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The same agents — believed by company officials to be from Russia’s #FSB, a successor to the #KGB intelligence service — then showed up at her room to tell her the clock was still ticking.
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