The campaign against the UN Compact for Migration launched by Irma Inashvili, leader of the pro-Russian Alliance of Patriots party, was continued by an online edition Sputnik Georgia. On December 24, 2018, it released an article headlined “Georgia expects increased flow of migrants from Africa and Asia.” The article focuses on Georgia’s support for the...

Obieqtivi TV and some Georgian Orthodox clerics are promoting Russian conspiracy theories about the Ukrainian church autocephaly. On December 20, 2018, an online edition Georgia and World released an interview with Giorgi Razmadze, head of the Avchala Church of Great Martyr Ketevan, where he promotes conspiracy theories about granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian church by...

Abkhazian government members and former national guard representatives disseminate conspiracy theory about Dulles Doctrine in Georgian media. On December 13, 2018, a member of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Akaki Gasviani, presented Dulles Doctrine conspiracy as a real fact, while it was mainly covered by tabloid publications in the Georgian media....

On December 12, 2018, Facebook page of “National Power” posted the following: “Multiculturalism destroys Europe and destroys us too.” In order to prove this, they used the statistical data. According to these statistics, multiculturalism is the reason behind the increase of crime rate and the reduction of titular nations in European countries. The post claimed...

Dimitri Lortkipanidze, director of the Primakov Georgian-Russian Public Center, said in the interview with a web portal, Georgia and World, on December 12 that lifting the ban on agricultural land sales to foreign nationals was the European Union’s categorical demand related to the EU-Georgia Association Agreement. Lortkipanidze also noted that the part of the Association...

On December 6, a web-portal Georgia and World published an article, in which a journalist, Nodar Gavasheli mentions that the only benefit the Association Agreement (AA) brought to Georgia is visa liberalization and nothing else. He also added that the visa-free movement between Georgia and the European Union is beneficial only to Europe, as Georgian...

On December 5, 2018, Russian language page of Sputnik Georgia published a comment of Gennady Onishchenko – the member of the Duma, about the Lugar Laboratory in Georgia. According to Onishchenko there are “Cold rooms” in the Lugar laboratory, which are not used in any other laboratory. Sputnik’s material is provided with two links. The...

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In a telephone conversation with Obieqtivi TV on November 26, 2018, Avtandil Enukidze of the pro-Russian Alliance of Patriots party spoke about Russia’s attack on Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait, claiming that the Ukrainian ships violated the law, as their movement was not agreed with Russia and that the incident was provoked by Ukrainian...

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On November 19, 2018, the Facebook page Politicano posted a video of Ruptly about the socialist march held in the capital of Chişinău on November 18. According to Politicano, the demonstrators supported the Socialist Party prior to the parliamentary elections of the 24th February, 2019. Politicano claims that demonstrants are skeptical towards the European integration,...

On November 23, 2018, a website Kartuli Azri (Georgian Idea) released an article titled “All prestigious schools of England have moved to the Soviet education system”. The article refers to Russian-language Правда-TV as its source. According to the article, British Education Minister Justine Greening said in the interview with BBC that British secondary schools have...