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...

On June 11, Nino Ratishvili, host of Obieqtivi TV’s Gamis Studia (Night Studio) program, and Tina Topuria, a homeopath invited to the program, spoke about COVID-19 vaccination. Nino Ratishvili claimed that the existence of a vaccination summit may become a signal for making vaccination mandatory in “the third countries” as well as for launching experiments...

On May 20, Mtavari Arkhi TV program “Dilis Mtavari” aired a story “New wave of deportation – Georgian citizens will be forcibly returned from Germany.” The information was posted on both platforms of Mtavari Arkhi – its Facebook page and website.  According to the story, the Georgian side plans to forcibly return Georgian emigrants residing...

On May 6, Georgia and the World published an article titled “Yakov Kedmi: During the Second World War, the Polish Murdered More Jews Than Germans, or the Contours of Denazification.” The article relies on a Kremlin-associated political reviewer Yakov Kedmi, who says that partisan movements in the Eastern Europe were mainly fighting the USSR, murdering...

Georgian pro-Kremlin media outlets frequently spread myths and disinformation about the Meskhetians deported from Samtskhe-Javakheti. The key messages aim at discrediting the Meskhetians and portraying them as fascists or Turkey’s allies. By discrediting the Meskhetians, pro-Kremlin media outlets are trying to justify Stalin’s policy and deportation of the Meskhetians.  One of such interviews was published...

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Speaking in the interview with Kavkasia TV host Davit Akubardia on April 29, Georgian politician Gubaz Sanikidze linked the spread of coronavirus to the race and noted that racial differences exist at a medical level. Sanikidze claimed that almost one half of people who died from the coronavirus in the United States are black people,...

On April 28, Sputnik-Ossetia published an article headlined “KGB announced about a threat of deliberately infecting South Ossetian citizens with COVID-19 from Georgia” (КГБ заявил об угрозе преднамеренного заражения граждан Южной Осетии COVID-19 из Грузии). According to the article, the so called South Ossetian security service warns local population not to accept the Georgian side’s...

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Narmin Ayvazova Narmin Ayvazova is doing her third academic year at the Faculty of Economy and Business at Tbilisi State University, majoring in Tourism and Business Administration. She currently serves as a PR representative of Salam platform, is an attendee at Caucasian House’s Public University, and is a participant of Emerging Leaders School (ELS) by...

Nestan Ananidze Nestan Ananidze is a third-year law student at Tbilisi State University. Nestan is currently a member of the “Solidarity Platform” of the “Human Rights and Monitoring Center (EMC)”. In addition, she is a member of the non-governmental organization “Civic Hall” and her civic activism is aimed at the development of the regions of...

On March 18, 2020, a news agency Prime Time published an article titled “Sweden Refused to Fight Coronavirus”. The article mentions that the Swedish Government does not resort to immediate measures in its fight against the virus, country’s borders are still open and all facilities are working as usual, while Swedish scientists do not share...