On October 26, 2018 a photo depicting the street name sign with the “Iran Street” written on it, once again appeared on Facebook. This time the photo was disseminated by “National Power” with the caption: “When are we going to name streets after Russia and the Ottoman Empire? Shame!” The “National Power’s” post was shared by other pages, such as “Patriots of Georgia”; and “Nazi Georgia”.
On October 19, during the debates between the presidential candidates, hosted by the Georgian Public Broadcaster, Gela Khutsishvili, a presidential candidate of “Political Movement of Armed Veterans and Patriots of Georgia,” said that the Prime Minister of Georgia gave 6 hectares of land to Turkey.
On October 18, in a TV Obieqtivi night studio, David Tarkhan-Mouravi, the leader of political party Alliance of Patriots of Georgia, stated that a number of religious groups in Georgia demand privileges similar to the Georgian Orthodox Church.
On October 18, 2018, during the final session of the club Valdai, held annually in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin talked about the conspiracies about
On October 4, 2018, TV Obieqtivi aired a story about the briefing held by the head of the Russian military’s radiation, chemical and biological protections troops, Igor Kirillov. The briefing was focused on Lugar Laboratory in Tbilisi. According to Kirilov, the medication called “Sovaldi” was tested on Georgians in Lugar Laboratory. He claims that Sovaldi is produced by the former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s company Gilead.
On October 9, 2018, during debates between the 2018 Presidential Election candidates on the Public Broadcaster of Georgia, a presidential candidate from a political union Free Georgia, Kakha Kukava, stated that the Ministry of Education of Georgia had already licensed and authorized the teaching of Arabic language in the first grade.
On October 12, Rustavi 2 TV’s news program Kurieri (Courier) aired a statement made by the ruling party-endorsed presidential candidate, Salome Zourabichvili, who said during
On October 10, a web portal Georgia and World (Geworld) released an article titled “Migrant raped a goat in Bulgaria.” The web portal refers to Russian news agency ФАН as its original source. The latter, in turn, refers to Bulgarian tabloid Уикенд. Geworld describes how Mladan Kirilov, a 73-year-old shepherd, came across “a dark skinned” migrant, who raped his goat, Milena. The shepherd resisted the attacker and the latter ran away, “shouting something in Arabic.”
On October 4, a reportage was aired on TV Obiektivi’s news program, mentioning that tourists allegedly inflict serious financial damage on Georgian medical facilities. Without revealing any statistical data, journalist concluded that the tourists account for thousands of GEL in debt, as “tourists often refuse to pay treatment costs”.
In an October 1-7 edition of Asaval-Dasavali, a journalist, Zaza Davita writes that Belarus is a model country, as it managed to maintain friendly relations with Russia while establishing partner relations with Europe. Asaval-Dasavali also claims that Europe has accused Belarus of violating human rights less often than Georgia.
On October 4, mystar.ge released an article authored by Irakli Miladze, according to which it is planned to bring 500 000 migrants to Georgia before the
Dimitri Lortkipanidze, director of the Primakov Georgian-Russian Public Center, said in the interview with online portal, Georgia and World on October 4 that the current pace of population outflow from Georgia was allegedly linked to visa liberalisation with the European Union.
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