To keep the the NSA from pwning Russian citizen's metadataz.

   OFC that's not how 'slashdolt' and Fortune Magazine see it:

     Russia has forced Apple and Google to remove the LinkedIn mobile app
     from their Russian application markets, the latest chapter in a
     months-long campaign against the professional networking site. From
     a report on Fortune:

     A recently-passed Russian law requires that any company holding data
     on Russians house that data within Russia. Russia began blocking
     LinkedIn's website last November under that law, which some critics
     argue is an indirect form of censorship. The removal of the LinkedIn
     app from Apples App Store and Google's Play shows the willingness of
     major internet gatekeepers to comply with individual nations'
     data-control laws, on both the web and mobile devices.

   [1]https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/01/09/1345234/russia-demands-lin
   kedin-app-takedown-apple-and-google-comply

References

   1. https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/01/09/1345234/russia-demands-linkedin-app-takedown-apple-and-google-comply