On July 6, the online news edition “Saqinform” published an article by Arno Khidirbegishvili, its own editor, under the headline “Russia can make an offer to Georgia that it can not refuse.” The author of the article instigates intolerance towards immigrants and wishes to expose them as assaillants and criminals.
On July 9, 2017, Russian NTV channel aired a story about recent developments in the Near East. Two photographs are used in the story, which, as NTV claims, depict the meeting between U.S. Senator from Arizona, John McCain and leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
On May 27, 2017, on the day of death of an American political scientist, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a new Georgian left-wing political-economic portal Politicano published a photo,
On June 28, 2017, the webpage of “Georgia and World“ published an article titled “Europe’s Rightless Person” concerning the allegedly discriminated state of Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic states. The existing situation in Latvia is given as an example and the Russian newspaper Izvestiya is cited as a primary source.
Georgian tabloid Asaval-Dasavali released in its June 26 – July 2 edition an article by journalist Giorgi Gigauri, in which he criticizes the plans to open a monument to President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel and accuses him of betraying Georgia’s first President, Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
On June 29, an online newspaper Geworld.ge released an article titled “Why the Sons of Bitches have Multiplied”, where journalist Giorgi Kordzadze claims that over
On July 5, 2017, an article in english written by Dimitri Dolaberidze and published by ‘Georgia Today’ news agency, entitled “Georgia’s Visa-Free Regime: Disappointing Preliminary Results”, which discussed the negative consequences of visa liberalization granted to Georgia, was distributed on social media.
On June 25, 2017, an interview with Russian Duma representative Leonid Kalashnikov, recorded in Moscow, by anchor of the program “Oqros Kveta”(Golden Intersection), Valeri Kvaratskhelia, was broadcasted by “Obieqtivi TV”. Kalashnikov disseminated five falsehoods about Moldova’s European integration process:
2017 წლის 19 ივნისს, რუსულმა ინტერნეტ გამოცემამ “Колокол России” გაამოაქვეყნა მასალა, რომლის თანახმად, ახალი, 89-ე კანონის მიხედვით, კანადაში ერთნაირსქესიანთა ქორწინების მიმართ ნეგატიურად განწყობილ ოჯახებს ბავშვები ჩამოერთმევათ.
On June 9, 2017, a Facebook page – Politicano – published a post concerning the economy of Albania. According to Politicano, the economy of Albania declined significantly since the signature of the Association Agreement.
On 7th June 2017, an online publication “Tbilisi 24” issued an information of a “general newspaper”, according to which, through the juvenile justice in Germany, children are taken away from families and placed in institutions similar to concentration camps, where they become victims of violence.
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