On July 4, Gia Areshidze, the former host of TV Obiektivi’s Night Studio, was a guest of the mentioned program. During his air time, he accused the Democratic Party of the United States of “sacrificing the lives” of its own and Georgia’s citizens. According to Areshidze, people died in the U.S. because of the Democrats, as they were treated...

On July 6, an official Facebook profile of the South Ossetian TV and Radio Company “ИР” run by the occupied region’s government shared a video headlined “Experiments on people in Georgia” in the group with the same name. The video has a caption “What is happening at Lugar Lab.” The media outlet posted an identical...

In its policy documents, the Georgian government recognizes Russian propaganda as a threat facing the country. To fight disinformation, strategic communications services are now operating at the Georgian government and various ministries; in addition, a media literacy function has been added to Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) to increase the resilience of media users and...

On July 4, the Russian Foreign Ministry released one more statement regarding the Tbilisi-based Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research, popularly known as Lugar Lab, according to which the U.S. Department of Defense is carrying out military-biological activities near the Russian borders, particularly at the Lugar Center in Georgia. The statement was spread by...

On May 30, Sputnik-Ossetia published an article titled “Comments in Tskhinvali on Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Appearing in Georgian Stores”. The article mentions that the propaganda of radical ideas and racial theories is on the rise, after Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” got published in Georgia in 2020. According to the KGB of the so-called South Ossetia,...

cOn June 26, 2020, Irakli Jankarashvili, a writer for online editions, News Front Georgia and tralsazrisi.ge, as well as an admin of Facebook page Antiliberal Doctrine, published a post, responding to the joint statement released by local civil society organizations on possible election of Sopio Kiladze, chair of the Parliament’s Human Rights Committee, as a...

On June 30, Sakinform news agency published an article headlined “It slipped of the U.S. Congressman’s tongue that Georgia is ruled by the U.S. Ambassador.” The article itself differs from its headline and it notes that U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger congratulated the Georgian Parliament on the approval of constitutional amendments. The article refers to Kinzinger’s...

Update: Shortly after Myth Detector published its article, the press office of Tbilisi City Hall clarified in the conversation with Radio Liberty that Kaladze paid his own money for the ad against three TV channels; however, the exact amount was not specified. On June 25, 2020, a bilingual (Georgian-English) post was published on the official...

On June 19, 2020, Sputnik Georgia published an article titled: “Eastern Partnership: An Imitation of an Integration”. The author of the article claims that the main goal behind the creation of Eastern Partnership (EaP) was to increase Brussel’s influence and deteriorate Russia’s relations with its neighbor and partner countries. The article also mentions that the...

14 Georgian lawmakers have nominated Bondo Mdzinarashvili, editor-in-chief and host of Obieqtivi TV, a channel affiliated with the opposition Alliance of Patriots party, for a vacant seat in the Board of Trustees of Georgian Public Broadcaster. The TV channel and personally Bondo Mdzinarashvili are known for anti-Western, pro-Russian, Turkophobic remarks and hate speech. The Media...

On June 23, Facebook user Shore Shanidze published a post on her page highlighting the issue of mandatory vaccination. Shanidze claims that Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has signed a commitment, along with sixty other countries, on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Shanidze refers to Imedinews as its source of information. However, the news story published by...

On June 20, Facebook page “საქართველო უპირველეს ყოვლისა” (Georgia First of All) published a post dedicated, as it claims, to government officials and heads of Georgian National Disease Control Center (NDCC). The page accuses them of damaging Georgian population’s health and slams them for the regulations on wearing face masks. The Facebook page claims that...