Experts react: What’s behind the crisis in Georgia? UkraineAlert by Doug Klain and Shelby Magid
Georgia is once again in a political crisis.
On February 23, Georgian police broke into the offices of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party to arrest UNM leader Nika Melia on what his team says are politically motivated charges. Melia was arrested shortly after former Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Garibashvili assumed the office of prime minister after his predecessor, Giorgi Gahkaria, resigned over plans to arrest Melia. After protests broke out over the arrest, Garibashvili issued a statement proposing that “all reasonable opposition forces enter parliament so that we may use the country’s legislature as the main platform for discussion.”
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GOOGLE TO LIFT BAN: Advertisers will be able to buy political ads with the search giant starting Wednesday for the first time since Jan. 13, when a ban was implemented a week after the deadly insurrection at the Capitol.
“We will continue to rigorously enforce our ads policies, which strictly prohibit demonstrably false information that could significantly undermine trust in elections or the democratic process,” a spokesperson told The Hill.
Google had previously used its “sensitive events” policy to freeze advertising for the five weeks directly following the general election.
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