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TBILISI, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Britain introduced sanctions against two pro-government television channels in Georgia on Tuesday, accusing them of spreading deliberately misleading information about Russia's war in Ukraine.
The sanctions against Imedi and Postv are part of a new British package targeting 297 entities to mark the fourth anniversary of Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Britain accused the channels of promoting false narratives about the war, including those that destabilise Ukraine or threaten its territorial integrity. It said Imedi in particular had spread falsehoods casting Ukraine's government as "illegitimate" or a "puppet" of the West.
This is a terrifying restriction of free speech - compare the cold war when pro-Soviet publications were freely available, including from 1985-88 an English version of Pravda.
According to Lasha Kasradze on Neutrality Studies the TV channel was punished for saying that Georgia was wise not to take sides in the Ukrainian conflict, but it does not matter to me what the TV channel broadcast.
The invaluable Neutrality Studies was taken off YouTube with a groundless story gat ut had veeb spamming but restored after an outcry. As Elon Musk says you know who the bad guys are. They're the ones restricting free speech.
By the way, if you imagine I am pro Russian I am not. Russias invasion of Ukraine was illegal and murderous, like the activity of the Mossad in the failed Iranian regime change recently.
Having seen what happened in December and January in Iran I am now convinced that the 2014 revolution in Kiev was mostly the work of the CIA and MI6 - many will say this was always obvious but I am cautious - and the unrest in Georgia since the elections of October 2024 largely was too.
The Labour Party's idea is that what keeps the Yukay together is not blood or history but values. I rarely feel I have the same values as the people who rule the UK or run the European Union.
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