On May 29, 2018, a ultra-nationalist Facebook page Iberian Union published a video, titled “#occupation”, showing a Muslim rally and accompanied with a xenophobic caption. Iberian Union labels the Muslim rally in London a “weaponless occupation” and calls for Georgian users of t
On 24 May 2018, online media outlet Georgia and World published an interview with Valeri Kvaratskhelia – an anchor of TV Obiektivi and leader of political party Neutral and Socialist Georgia. He compares the present situation in
On May 9, POS TV’s Media Rentgeni program aired on Maestro TV was dedicated to the issue of fabrication in social research. Nikoloz Laliashvili, the program host, noted that the civil society sector is one of the initiators of fake sociology, whereas media turns falsified
On May 24, 2018, an online edition Georgia and the World published an article, titled “The destruction of morality and the cannibalism through ‘King Rat’ technology”. The author of the article claims that
On 24 May 2018, news website Geworld.ge published an interview with Levan Chachua, leader of the ultra-nationalist political party Georgian Idea. The interview reviews the events of 17 May. According to Chachua,
On 28 May 2018, a Facebook page named Political Footprint posted a photo depicting an incident of vandalising icons. According to Political Footprint, members of LGBT community damaged icons in the Church of St. Catherine in Thessaloniki
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said in the interview with RFE/RL on May 24, following the meeting in the Abashidze-Karasin format that Russia has completely fulfilled its commitments under the August 12, 2008 six-point
On May 17, Geworld.ge gave new life to the famous conspiracy about Allen Dulles’ Plan. According to this conspiracy, during the Cold War, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Allen Dulles, created a special plan for destroying Soviet society’s moral values. The article titled “A rise or a fall of Georgians on the Day of Ascension of Jesus” mentions that, in 1947,
On May 20, a nationalist Facebook page Georgian Idea shared a video shared by iNews on March 19. The video shows a pride rally held by LGBT community in Istanbul in 2015.
On May 22, 2018, an information portal Ipress published information that the Mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, had been attacked due to issuing a permit for conducting a gay pride.
An interview by the host of TV Obiektivi and the Leader of the Neutral Socialist Georgia party, Valeri Kvaratskhelia, was published in May 14-20 issue of Asaval-Dasavali, where he accuses the United States of encouraging fascism.
The draft law initiated in the Parliament of Georgia by a member of Alliance of Patriots, Emzar Kvitsiani, which envisages a fine or deprivation of liberty for offending religious sensibilities
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