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In the run-up to the September 17-19 national legislative elections, Russia has purged the field of almost all genuine opposition politicians and implemented multiple legal amendments that critics say could facilitate fraud.

And the battle against dissent has also been raging online.

In recent months, Russia has ratcheted up its campaign to rein in Western tech giants, stopping short of blocking the platforms outright but issuing hefty fines against Google, Facebook, and Twitter and demanding that they remove content the government has deemed offensive, dangerous, or lewd.

On September 9, the state-run news agency RAPSI reported that the Moscow prosecutor's office had sent a letter to the chief operating officers of Apple and Google, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, with demands that their companies block a smartphone app run by the team of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.

According to RAPSI, the state views the app as technology funded from abroad and not by Russian taxpayers, and in turn as a violation of Russian electoral law. "This testifies to Apple's violation of Russian electoral law and illegal foreign meddling in the internal affairs of the country and its influence on the exercise of free will by Russian citizens." The app in question, which is simply called Navalny, is a key element in an electoral strategy that the Kremlin critic's aides call Smart Voting.

It's part of an effort by Russia to enforce complete compliance with restrictive Russian laws by major tech companies, including Western tech giants and Russian ones like Yandex, which reportedly also received the letter from the prosecutor.

In a parallel development on September 9, Interfax reported that Russia's communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that Apple, Google, and U.S. telecommunications and software companies Cloudflare and Cisco work to enforce Russia's blockage of the Smart Voting website -- and limit users' ability to circumvent the tools the state uses to prevent access.

Joe Hoft, from the Gateway Pundit, had the following discussion on Friday night in an interview with President Trump:

Joe Hoft: We want to congratulate you Mr. President. We believe you were absolutely true about this election. We've been following it. Like Jim mentioned, I'm an auditor by trade. It didn't take an auditor to see this thing was stolen on many counts.

President Trump: Absolutely

Joe Hoft: This afternoon [week] in Arizona, a group led by Liz Harris did some canvassing on their own. A group of citizens in Arizona, and they found through their estimates, 300,000 ballots that were either counted that shouldn't have been or weren't counted that should have been, and yet they're saying Joe Biden won the state by 10,000 votes. Our media won't share that. We did but the media won't. What are your thoughts on that?

President Trump: Well first of all I appreciate that question. Our media is corrupt as can be, and but the people know what's going on and another poll came out, 70 some percent thought the election was, to put it very nicely, tampered with... We had it won at 10:30 pm on Election Day. Pennsylvania we were up by hundreds of thousands of votes, Arizona, all these places. And then those polling counters closed and when they opened, gee we were tied, and numbers that were, it was not even possible to think about losing, on Election Night.

This was the greatest rigged election, the greatest, most, that they do well. If they fight wars like they do rigged elections, that they do will. And you know what, it's never been a stronger issue. I appreciate you mentioning it because it's never been a stronger issue. The only problem is the press doesn't like talking about it, including FOX. The press doesn't like talking about it, and some day somebody is going to tell me why, cause our election was rigged. This was a rigged election.

If the Democrats used their opportunities to save the Union, the country and the world would be a better place. Instead, they cheat and steal elections.

On Friday President Trump met with the Gateway Pundit. We shared the story of our friends in Italy who told us on Friday to ask President Trump whether he is coming back. The entire world is praying for his return. In response, the President said the following.

So Joe I think you're going to be very happy. Because of the campaign finance laws and rules and regulations, which by the way are ridiculous, are not allowed to say otherwise you have a whole new level of craziness happen. And, I think you are going to be very happy. He will be very happy and I appreciate the question.

While Biden's order applies to employees of the executive branch, the House and Senate are part of the separate legislative branch, and of course the courts are part of the judicial branch - so the new orders don't apply.

"Building on the President's announcement in July to strengthen safety requirements for unvaccinated federal workers, the President has signed an Executive Order to take those actions a step further and require all federal executive branch workers to be vaccinated," reads Biden's COVID 'action plan' titled "Path Out of the Pandemic."

"The President also signed an Executive Order directing that this standard be extended to employees of contractors that do business with the federal government," the plan continues. "As part of this effort, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Indian Health Service, and the National Institute of Health will complete implementation of their previously announced vaccination requirements that cover 2.5 million people."

How's this going to 'protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated' on Capitol Hill?

An individual who uses violence, terror, and intimidation to achieve a result.

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