Several publications released by the Myth Detector in February 2020 about disinformation spread by Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi, one of the leaders of the Alliance of Patriots party, triggered active engagement of suspicious Facebook accounts. Fake users are mainly commenting on the materials targeting the leaders of the Alliance of Patriots party and accusing them of spreading...

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On December 29 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made the statement accusing Vladimer Putin in rewriting history of IIWW. Myth Detector publishes Polish PM’s statement: “The 20th century brought the world inconceivable suffering and the death of hundreds of millions of people killed in the name of sick, totalitarian ideologies. The death toll of Nazism,...

In the interview with Obieqtivi TV’s Gamis Studia (Night Studio) program on December 20, Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi, leader of the Alliance of Patriots party, said that despite its membership to the Eurasian Union, Armenia, like Georgia, is a partner and “associated member” of the European Union. Moreover, Tarkhan-Mouravi said that Armenia receives more assistance from the...

Khatia Akhalaia remembers every detail of the stories schoolgirls told her. About a desperate teenager jumping from a high building because she was pregnant. About teachers telling them to stay at home during their menstruation. About the rumour that AIDS is transmitted through kissing. “For many of the school kids it was the first time...

After the imposition of a ban on flights from Russia to Georgia, fears of serious economic repercussions were widespread in the Caucasian country. The tourism industry, however, proved to be resilient to resulting forces, including disinformation.  By Peter Sawicki Keta Goletiani still remembers June 21. On that date, her home country was targeted by a...

On December 4, Georgian tabloid Alia released an interview with former Georgian Security Minister Valeri Khaburdzania, who claims that during his tenure, neither the United States, nor Europe provided any financial assistance to Georgia. He also noted that Europe’s support to Georgia in foreign issues equals to zero. Valeri Khaburdzania, former Security Minister: “I have...

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the  people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.  Abraham Lincoln “Around the world, government actors are using social media to manufacture consensus, automate suppression, and undermine trust in the liberal international order,” according to the report...

Jeffrey Silverman, author of USA Really sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and one of the main sources referred to by Russian state-sponsored media outlets against the Lugar Laboratory, is a volunteer teacher in Teach and Learn with Georgia program implemented by Teacher Professional Development Center. Silverman teaches English at LEPL Public College...

Reports emerged on October 5 that Ilia Jishkariani, member of the Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo) was accused by Tamta Todadze, his assistant, of attempted rape and sexual violence. On October 8, the Prosecutor’s Office granted Tamta Todadze the status of a victim and brought charges against Ilia Jishkariani. Tamta Todadze’s accusations against the Sakrebulo member...

On September 6, 2019, Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi of the Alliance of Patriots party told Obieqtivi TV in its late night program Gamis Eteri that German unification was the result of correct policy pursued by the Soviet Union. Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi, Alliance of Patriots: “Today, Germany is united and it is united because in its time, the Soviet...

On September 10, at the 5th Tbilisi International Conference, organized by the Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC) and the McCain Institute for International Leadership, the former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen voiced an initiative that the Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty be enacted for occupied Georgian terriotires only after the country...