On August 26, the Georgian-language Facebook account Tbilisi 24 shared a video of Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev, in which he allegedly states that the Kremlin was designed by Azerbaijani architect Alis Subkhan oglu Keremli and proposes an initiative for Moscow’s cultural liberation. The same video was also circulated in July by Russian-language Facebook accounts (1;2)....

On May 27, the pro-Kremlin publication, Tbilisi24, carried an article titled “Exclusive: Zourabichvili’s government!” According to the article, within the scope of the Georgian charter proposed by the President to the political opposition, Salome Zourabichvili and representatives of the opposition have agreed to create an “interim, technocratic government” and have almost finalized discussions on the...

On June 1,  2023, the website of the news agency “Tbilisi 24” published an article which features an alleged statement of Kelly Degnan, the United States ambassador to Georgia. According to the article, Degnan states that she is shocked to see the monument of the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin at Freedom Square in Tbilisi...

Messages against the North Atlantic Alliance in pro-Kremlin publications have intensified ahead of the NATO Ministerial in Riga. To incite scepticism about NATO, pro-Russian actors disseminated a quote from the American political scientist from a 2016 interview with Voice of America (VOA) in a coordinated manner. Instead of Russia, Mearsheimer considers China and as a priority for...

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On February 11, a social network user posted a video on Facebook titled “John Mearsheimer – American expert on international issues: America is more aggressive than Russia.” The video depicting Imedi TV’s logo was aired with the following caption: “The Voice of America specially for Qronika,” creating an impression that the presented video, which claimed...

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October 23, 2017, an online edition Tbilisi 24 released an  article headlined “The Truth about Vaccines,” involving conspiracy theories about vaccination. The author of the article claims that vaccines cause increased child mortality and autism, noting that child mortality rates are lower in those countries, where vaccination is not mandatory. The author spreads conspiracies in...

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On June 3, 2017, a Georgian webpage tb24.ge published Lado Bedukadze’s story concerning the economic condition of the Russian Federation. The author states, based on unclear sources, that the Russian economy is growing and labels the Georgian economic condition unfortunate. Lado Bedukadze: “Russia’s economy is growing, foreign investments are increasing, Russia’s gold and currency reserves have increased significantly, the country’s...

Media Development Foundation (MDF) released report “Financial Transparency of Media 2016”. According to the report, budget organizations continue to enter into contracts with such media outlets that use hate speech and fan anti-Western sentiments. In contrast to the previous period, the contractors, in 2016, included an openly pro-Russian edition “Tbilisi 24” which has ties with the...

On March 26, 2017, tb24.ge, based on a Russian source Lenta.ru, published information about Donald Trump allegedly handing Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, during her visit, a bill worth 300 billion for NATO. Geworld.ge published the same information as well: TB24: “According to several statements of the President of the United States, the USA...

On February 26, an information agency TB24 published a photo titled Photo for the Mood – Children’s Present to Fathers for February 23. The caption of the photo indicates that children in one of Ukraine’s kindergartens were tasked to craft cannons for their dads due to February 23 (Defender of the Fatherland Day). The photo shows phallic shapes...

On 27th January 2017, the news “recruited Georgian fighters are returning from Ukraine to Georgia, due to the non-payment of salaries” was posted on tb24.ge. The publication is based on a Luhansk Republic’s People’s Militia representative, Andrei Marochko’s statement, diffused throughout Russian media (Ria Novosti, Novorossia Vision, Rusnewstoday24). (appliedconcepts) Andrei Marochko: “38 recruited fighters of the so-called...

On October 31, an information agency, Tbilisi 24, disseminated information about granting a visa-free regime by the United States to Belarus. According to the agency, Belarus is the 39th country that does not require visa to enter the US, as only electronic authorization is sufficient. Attached with the given information is a Russian language primary source that redirects...