On January 30, 2018, the web portal “Georgia and the World” (Geworld) published an article titled “Betrayal.” The article tells about a rally organized by the adversaries of the United Nations covenant on migration. The rally took place on January 28. One of the organizers of the rally and director of the Primakov Georgian-Russian Public...

The Kremlin’s propaganda narrative about the current situation developments in Venezuela which coincides with Russia’s official position, is distributed by Sputnik-Georgia’s Abkhazian and South Ossetian Russian-language websites and Facebook page “Politicano”. They depict popular protests against President Maduro’s socialist regime as a “disorder” organized by the United States and accuse the US of interfering in...

Toupee, or no toupee, that is the question?  When it comes to the term “fake news” in Western Europe countries, people tend to think of funny Donald Trump memes, seductive click bait headlines or overheated facebook debates. In fact deeper researches on the topic proof that in other parts of the world there is more...

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On January 19, 2019, Pirveli news agency released a Facebook post by political analyst, Ghia Abashidze, where he claims that while Freedom House expresses concern about informal governance in Georgia, it has no questions towards “Europe’s old democracies” about identical problems persisting there. He names a number of European states, among them Poland, Germany and...

Zviad Dzidziguri, the representative of the ruling party and the vice-speaker of the parliament of Georgia develops the narrative of Nino Burjanadze, the leader of the pro-Russian party “Democratic Movement-United Georgia”, regarding then newly granted autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church. Like Nino Burjanadze, Zviad Dzidziguri also tries to demonstrate that recognition of the autocephaly of...

According to DFRLab Facebook removed almost 289 pages and 75 accounts from its platform ” across the former-Soviet space on January 17, 2018. These pages acted in “ coordination ” in 13 countries included Georgia. these countries are: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In aggregate, they...

On January 9, Russian State Media source “Sputnik-Georgia” posted a video-comment its Russian-language web site, entitled “Poroshenko awarded the “Hero of Ukraine” title to Filaret – the reviewer’s opinion.” Armen Gasparyan in his video states that the document granting autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine – Tomos is illegitimate because the majority of the...

In its January 14-20 issue, Georgian tabloid Asaval-Dasavali released an interview with Jeffrey Silverman, Georgian Bureau Chief for Veterans Today, where he again spreads conspiracy theories about swine flu, laboratories and vaccines. Silverman claims that H1N1 flu virus was created in the laboratory and that it was first tested in China in 2018 and now...

On January 9, 2019, Nino Burjanadze, the leader of pro-Russian party “Democratic Movement” held a press-conference where she spoke about the autocephaly of Ukraine. According to Burjanadze, if the Georgian Church recognizes the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church, the Russian Patriarchate will recognize the independence of the Church of Abkhazia. On the same day, Nino...

Disinformation and conspiracy theories related to swine flu have gone viral in social media and tabloids recently. According to the three most widespread conspiracy theories about swine flu: Swine flu was spread from the Lugar Laboratory; Swine flu is an artificially created epidemic and it is linked with business interests; Bananas imported to Georgia are...

December 24 – January 13 issue of Alia newspaper featured an interview by a journalist Levan Javakhishvili with a representative of an organization My Batumi – Irakli Jankarashvili. Levan Javakhishvili claimed that the Association Agreement (AA) with the European Union obliges Georgia to import and utilize chemical waste. He also added that it is planned...