Alliance of Patriots initiated series of videos called “Protect Adjara, Protect Your Part of Georgia” in the framework of its electoral campaign. In the videos, the leaders of the party state that Turkey has occupied 33% of Georgia’s territory and claims other regions of Georgia as well, including Adjara, Samtskhe-Javakheti, and Guria. While discussing the...

On August 31, an online outlet Zneoba.ge published a post on its Facebook page regarding the Parliament-adopted Code on the Rights of the Child. The outlet condemns the Code as the document that makes children confront God and destructs families. It also slams the UN for its role in developing the code, as well as...

On September 3, the Ministry of Health made a statement that a cyberattack had been carried out on the computer system of the Ministry by foreign intelligence agents, resulting in medical documentation about Lugar Research Center being stolen and published on foreign webpages. Later, the Deputy Head of the National Center for Disease Control and...

In the 31 August – 6 September volume, the newspaper “Asaval-Dasavali” published an interview with Lali Moroshkina who discussed 5G antennas. According to Moroshkina, pine trees wither due to radiation, and the process of withering is linked to the launch of 5G antennas in a testing regime. Moreover, Moroshkina links 5G to headache, blood pressure,...

On August 26, 2020, Nodar Gogebashvili, an immunologist, spoke at “Night Studio” program of TV Obiektivi about a vaccination against COVID-19 and stated that the Oxford vaccine, funded by Bill Gates, is genetically modified and can alter human genes. TV Obiektivi also aired a video featuring Bill Gates dubbed in Georgian where Gates speaks about...

On 29th of August, 2020 Bera Ivanishvili published a videosupporting #BlackLivesMater on his Instagram profile. On 29th of August, page Turning Point Georgia spread Bera Ivanishvili’s video footage with accompanying footage of protest rally in the U.S. The page equates Bera’s declaration of solidarity to the BlackLivesMatter movement with the support for the crimes committed...

On 24th of August, one of the leaders of “Georgian March” Sandro Bregadze published a photo with a description: “Dumb president of Estonia and gay chief of Intelligence Service (on the right) – Georgian March is a destructive power – and when they say this, that’s when I feel we’re the most powerful!!!” on his private account...

On August 7, 2020, exactly 12 years have passed since the start of the Russo-Georgian War. The debates regarding the starting date of the war still causes disagreements in the Georgian politics. Russian Army intervened in Georgia on August 7, 2020, starting the Russo-Georgian military confrontation, however, some Russia-affiliated actors try to legitimize August 8 as...

On August 17, 2020, a news agency NSP.GEpublished an article titled “Scandalous Statement by a Russian General: We Were Not Planning to Enter Akhalgori in 2008 – We Occupied That Area Per Kakha Lomaia’s Request”. The article cites Vyacheslav Borisov, Major-General of Airborne Forces of Russia, whose interview was printed in a newspaper „საერთო გაზეთი“...

Logging onto their computers in the morning just over a year ago, civil servants and NGO fact-checkers saw an unlikely sight. Over 15,000 Georgian websites had been hacked to display a photo of the disgraced former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with a message: “I’ll be back.” The Georgian Foreign Ministry blamed Russia for the cyberattack, likening...

The presidential elections held in Belarus on August 9 triggered mass protests. The Belarusians took to the streets after it emerged that incumbent leader Alexander Lukashenko, who has been ruling the country since 1994, garnered 80% of votes. Lushashenko’s regime used force and violence to disperse peaceful protesters. Amid Belarus protests, openly pro-Russian, Kremlin-affiliated actors,...

Speaking in the interview with Obieqtivi TV on August 7, Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi, one of the leaders of the Alliance of Patriots, said that after the party exposed the deceptions spread by two U.S. organizations – the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) – both suspended their polls for one year. On August 13,...