Between August 27 and September 2, Georgian (1;2) and Russian-speaking (1;2;3;4) Facebook users spread claims that Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) had discovered evidence showing that Volodymyr Zelenskyy had purchased real estate in Europe worth $1.2 billion. According to the posts, after a former NABU investigator (Olena K.) discovered the property, she fled to Europe,...

On August 13-14, Facebook user Nona Sharabidze, who systematically spreads disinformation, along with other Georgian– and Russian-language Facebook accounts, shared a photo of U.S. President Donald Trump holding a map of Ukraine. On the map, Ukraine’s territory is divided into two parts – in the colors of the Russian and Ukrainian flags. According to the...

On August 7, Nona Sharabidze, a Facebook user who systematically spreads disinformation, posted that in Ukraine, in the town of Horodok, Lviv region, all the trees in the central square were cut down because, according to the mayor, Volodymyr Remenyak, they had been planted during the Soviet Union. On August 2, the same claim was...

A quote about Ukraine falsely attributed to the American philanthropist George Soros has been circulated on a Georgian-speaking Facebook account. The quote reads: “We need Ukraine in the war with Russia like a torpedo. We do not care at all about the fate of this country’s citizens.” According to the circulated claim, Soros allegedly made...

On November 11, Facebook user Nona Sharabidze shared a claim alleging that Larry Fink, the head of the American corporation BlackRock, called for the cremation of Ukrainian soldiers. The accompanying photo features Larry Fink alongside the following quote: “The owner of Ukraine addressed Ukrainians with a complaint: “There are too many cemeteries! Use crematoriums. This...

From November 6 to 11, Georgian and Russian-speaking users on Facebook (1, 2, 3, 4) shared information claiming that President of Moldova Maia Sandu is concerned about the lack of democracy in the United States. The post includes a specific quote, attributed to the Moldovan President by Facebook users: “Such a strong and great country but failed to...

On September 23, several Russian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and Georgian-speaking Facebook accounts shared a photo of a young half-naked woman resembling Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. These accounts claimed that Tsikhanouskaya was trying to attract young voters with this image. The woman in the photo is not Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya...

On August 17 and 18, Facebook user Nona Sharabidze and other Russian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2), as well as the Russian state media outlet Царьград, disseminated information that Ukrainian schools are starting to teach the subject “Gender Diversity and Basics of Sexual Orientation” in primary grades. The posts are accompanied by a photo of a...

Since June 14, Georgian (1,2,3) and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2), Facebook pages, as well as Russian-language account fo Threads (1,2) have been reporting that Coca-Cola is returning to the Russian market, which is evidenced by the fact that the company applied for trademark registration in Russia in April. Part of the Facebook accounts disseminated the...

On May 12, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a photo collage of the Pope. The photos show that the Pope has an LGBTQ+ flag wrapped around his shoulders.  The photo is accompanied by a caption in Russian: “Russia is the last pillar of the Christian world.” Catholicism is over.” The user writes that Russia is...

On February 29 and March 1, 2024, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook users (1, 2) reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping said that China and Russia are partners and friends, and in the event that, under the influence of the United States, NATO starts a conflict with Russia, China will use military resources at his disposal...

On February 8-11, 2023, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook accounts disseminated the information that the Ukrainian Oshadbank has started blocking the cards of customers who avoid general conscription and do not report to the military commissariat. As proof, the authors of the posts attached a photo of a written message sent by Oshadbank, which reads: “Your...

On January 31, the Facebook page of the Belarusian state television, ОНТ, published a post, according to which the UN Court refused to declare Russia an aggressor state and also refused Ukraine’s request to declare the so-called occupied Donetsk and Luhansk Republics as terrorist organizations. A post with similar content in February by individual Facebook...

In August, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2) spread information about the death of an American general. According to Nona Sharabidze’s post, American Major General Anthony Potts was killed in a Russian missile attack on the NATO headquarters in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, and a Russian-speaking Facebook user writes that Potts died in a Russian missile...

After the NATO summit held in Vilnius on July 11-12, Georgian and Russian-language (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Facebook accounts have been actively circulating a photo depicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Zelenskyy extends his hand to Stoltenberg for a handshake, and Stoltenberg looks at him. Part of the...

On July 4, 2023, Facebook user Nona Sharabidze published a photo collage consisting of photos of the President of Russia, the King of Sweden, and the former President of Estonia. Vladimir Putin is sitting on a horse and wearing military print clothes. Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf wears a reindeer antler hat, while former Estonian...

On July 2-5, two alleged quotes of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, regarding the protests taking place in France were disseminated on social media. Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2) have been spreading the quote, according to which Zelenskyy asks the Europeans how they feel without Ukraine, reminding them that for many years, Ukraine offered them...

On June 9-10, 2023, a photo of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was published by the anonymous Facebook page “Konstantinopol News,” as well as on the Georgian-language Facebook account, Russian-language media and forums. The photo shows Greta Thunberg holding a piece of paper with the inscription “Putin! Stop destroying the Leopards!” The photo of Greta...

Update: On April 20, a paragraph about the dissemination of the claim in Russian media was added at the beginning of the article. In March, Russian media outlets Lenta.ru, Известия, Газета.Ru, Московский комсомолец disseminated the information that in Lithuania, God was accused of supporting Russia. According to the articles, the Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament,...

On April 7, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a post, according to which the Ukrainian post office issued a series of stamps dedicated to the SS division “Galicia.” The post is accompanied by a photo showing the alleged stamps issued by Ukraine. Notably, the same information was voiced by the spokesperson of the Ministry...

On March 25, 2023, Russian media and Russian– and Georgian-language Facebook users (1, 2, 3) published photos of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and a young naked woman who looks like her. The users claim that Baerbock is the person depicted in the photos and that she was engaged in prostitution in the past. “I...

On March 16, 2023, a Georgian-language user Facebook user shared a screenshot of the article from the Russian language service of “Voice of America”. According to the caption, US Vice President Kamala Harris believes that Russian special services may be behind the “inappropriate behaviour” of President Joe Biden. In October 2022, other Georgian and Russian-language...

On February 26th, 2023, the propaganda media outlet mk.ru, as well as the Georgian and Russian-language social media users (1,3) have been circulating the screenshot of the Russian-language service of “Radio Liberty”. According to the caption, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said: “Zelenskyy’s widow will be able to get US citizenship in an...

On February 18th, 2023, a Georgian language Facebook account published a photo of a Chocolate Bar. The package is marked with a small black ribbon and the inscription “Death to Alyoshka” [Смерть Алёшки]. The coat of arms of Ukraine is depicted on the right corner of the chocolate packaging. According to the post, the chocolate...

From March 2022 to January 2023, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook accounts have been circulating two versions of a photo taken at one of the demonstrations. In the first version (1,2,3), the participants of the rally hold the Ukrainian flag that shows the following inscription: “Putin, give us back our mind.” An enlarged version of the...

On January 29, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a photo of a pink tank. According to the Russian-language caption of the photo, European feminists raised money and bought a tank for Ukraine, which they painted pink because green was too offensive, and chopped off the barrel of the tank because it looked sexist. Identical information...

On December 27th, 2022, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a photo of Olaf Scholz with the following description: “Olaf Scholz forgot to turn off the microphone and called Zelenskyy a prostitute.” According to the author, the incident happened after the Chancellor’s speech, while discussing the impossibility of sending tanks from Germany to Ukraine. On December...

During November 12th-19th, 2022, Russian-language media outlets Lenta.ru,  Life.ru, News.rambler.ru, svpressa.ru, news.ru have been reporting about the demolition of the bust of Alexander Pushkin in the city of Zhytomyr, Ukraine. According to disseminated information, a bust of Pushkin in Zhytomyr fell on the head of one of the activists during the dismantling process, killing him...

On 7 August, a Facebook user, Nona Sharabidze, posted a message about the August 2008 war: “If Russia is really an aggressor, why did it not shell blocks of flats in the August 2008 war?!” This post aserted that Russia did not target civilians during the August war.  The claim that Russia did not bomb...

On May 15th, the Facebook user ‘Nino Sharabidze’ published an alleged quote from the famous American businessman David Rockefeller. The post ascribes to Rockefeller the following words: “It is necessary to organize world processes in such a way that the Arabs kill the Arabs, the Slavs kill the Slavs. We cannot allow the third world...

On November 11, 2020, Facebook user Nona Sharabidze published a post, according to which the Rockefeller and the Rothschild families are the Masons and globalists. Sharabidze claims that just they destructed Georgia’s economy following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and shifted the entire blame for its consequences on Russia. The post is accompanied by the photo...