Штаты вводят широкий спектр мер санкций в отношении ряда должностных лиц правительства Грузии. Сообщается, что Государственный департамент также предпринимает дополнительные шаги по введению визовых ограничений для более чем 60 граждан Грузии и членов их семей, «ответственных за подрыв демократии в Грузии или причастных к этому». В частности, в число этих лиц входят члены парламента, «сыгравшие решающую роль в продвижении недемократического законодательства и ограничении гражданского общества».
Штаты вводят широкий спектр мер санкций в отношении ряда должностных лиц правительства Грузии. Сообщается, что Государственный департамент также предпринимает дополнительные шаги по введению визовых ограничений для более чем 60 граждан Грузии и членов их семей, «ответственных за подрыв демократии в Грузии или причастных к этому». В частности, в число этих лиц входят члены парламента, «сыгравшие решающую роль в продвижении недемократического законодательства и ограничении гражданского общества».
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces "destroy the invaders wherever we can." Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children.
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