On October 3, an ultra-nationalist movement National Force wrote on its Facebook page that it is planned to bring 500 000 migrants to Georgia before the end of 2020 and that the government and the opposition (the National Movement and European Georgia) have given their consent to it.
On September 29, a Politicano Facebook page, based on an article by a Russian edition Lenta.ru, published a piece saying that allegedly, a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist party and movement «Правий сектор» broke into one of the Orthodox churches in Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine, stormed it and physically abused the believers. Politicano refers to the Ukrainian political party and movement «Правий сектор» as a terrorist organization, whose activity, they claim, is not restricted by the Government of Ukraine.
In the interview with Obieqtivi TV on September 24, 2018, Archpriest Giorgi Pavlov raised the issue of granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, saying that the process is being ruled by the United States. To confirm his words, Giorgi Pavlov recollected the arrival of two exarchs in Ukraine,
On September 19, 2018, the host of the media-union Obiektivi, Bondo Mdzinarashvili, stated in the Night Studio of TV Obiektivi that the United States do
Georgia’s ex-security chief, Igor Giorgadze said at a news briefing in Moscow on September 11, 2018 that the Tbilisi-based Lugar Laboratory conducts experiments on people and creates biological weapons. The remarks were widely covered by Kremlin’s Russian-language (1 канал, Россия-24, РЕН ТВ, “Звезда” НТВ , Sputnik-Georgia
The position expressed by official Moscow and Russian pro-Kremlin media as if two Russian citizens, identified by Britain as suspects in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, former Russian GRU officer, and his daughter, Yulia, are actually innocent was echoed by Georgian-language media outlets.
On October 15, 2018, Channel One, Russia’s largest state-run TV channel, aired the story by Timur Siraziev titled “The British government extends the rights for its Special Forces to kill and torture throughout the world.” During the entire story, the author tries to link high-profile murders of former KGB agents, attempted murders, as well as deaths of some persons associated with Russia, including Boris Berezovsky and Badri Patarkatsishvili, to MI5, UK’s domestic counterintelligence and security agency.
On September 6, the online portal Georgia and World published an interview with the leader of St. Ketevan Martyr’s Church in Avchala, Giorgi Razmadze, entitled “Father Giorgi (Razmadze): Georgian government nourishes the EU
On August 30, 2018, the far-right portal ALT-INFO published the article entitled “The US City Boston Authority Declined to Raise a Christian Flag on a
On September 4, 2018, on air at TV Caucasia’s Spectrum program, a political activist, Avigdor Eskin spoke about the visit of the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, to Georgia on August 22. As Eskin claimed, the Chancellor called on Georgia to receive Syrian refugees.
On September 3, 2018, a statement by the Head of an ultra-nationalist group Georgian March, Sandro Bregadze, was disseminated. According to the statement, a gay pride was planned to be held on Dinamo Stadium on September 9.
On August 14, 2018, the online newspaper Marshallpress published news entitled “HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH’s dangerous appeal to the government that has outraged the society”. The article states that Human Rights Watch asks the Georgian government to decriminalize personal use of all drugs and acquisition/possession of a small quantity for personal use. Marshallpress notes that the appeal was followed by negative feedback from the majority of social networks users.
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