Georgian newspaper Alia released in its November 13-19, 2017 edition a Facebook post by Bakur Svanidze, author of pro-Russian online portal Geworld.ge, where he claims that mainly those persons fell victims to Stalin’s repressions of 1937-1938, who were themselves arresting and shooting, torturing and destructing other innocent people earlier in 1933-1934. According to the data...

On November 25, 2017, in an interview for the television program “Ganskhvavebuli Aqtsentebi” (The Other Accents) on Rustavi 2, Giorgi Andriadze, chairman of the supervisory board for the St. Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia, stated that George Soros has been declared persona non grata in Austria. The aforementioned statement is...

The report reflects the media monitoring findings conducted by the Media Development Foundation (MDF). The goal of the media monitoring was to study the factors conducive to radicalization of Muslim youth and explore the role of media in this process. The target of media monitoring was the Georgian, Russian, Azerbaijani and Turkish media named by...

An article titled ”If We Want to Survive, We Must Look For Our Place in the Russian Political-Clerical Vaarwater” by a journalist Davit Mkheidze was published in an online-edition Georgia and World’s webpage. The article mentions that the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I (aka World Patriarch) is funded by the USA and Turkey, therefore,...

On November 20-21, Russian media outlets disseminated information about an investigative documentary “Ukraine: The Hidden Truth” aired by Italian TV channel Matrix. According to the film, snipers backed by opposition leaders and the European Union, rather than by pro-Russian Ukrainian government forces, opened fire on protesters rallying on the Maidan square of Kiev in February...

Statements that hold that the integration of Georgia in the Western institutions is allegedly the same as violating the sovereignty of the country periodically appear in the Georgian media. For instance, a host of the Night Studio on TV Obiektivi, Nino Ratishvili, while discussing pro-Russian political parties with a political scientist Tamar Kiknadze on October...

On November 20, 2017, Saqinform released an article alleging that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg declared at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, that Georgia and Ukraine are not ready to join the alliance, as these countries have not been yet properly reformed. Saqinform: “Ukraine and Georgia are not ready for NATO membership yet,”...

Georgian tabloid Asaval-Dasavali released in its October 30 – November 5 edition the interview with Georgian athlete, Roman Rurua, in which the latter discusses the issue of Abkhazia in Turkophobic and Islamophobic context and notes that alienation between Georgians and Abkhaz is linked to ethnic Turk, Konstantin Ozgan. Rurua claims that Ozgan fulfilled the instructions...

On 8 November 2017, online news agency Tb24.ge published an article entitled “The European Union has weakened, this is the beginning of the end“, which discusses the meeting between President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda. Tb24.ge claims,that during a joint press conference the Polish President refuted Georgia’s aspirations to join...

On October 27, 2017, an online edition tb24.ge posted an article headlined “They will not forgive you, Lavrenty, they will kill you!” dedicated to Lavrenty Beria’s personality and activities. Although the article does not conceal Beria’s involvement in political repressions and resettlement of North Caucasian peoples, the author still portrays him in a positive context and tries...

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On November 6, 2017, Nino Ratishvili, host of the television program on Obieqtivi TV, as well as leaders of the Alliance of Patriots, Irma Inashvili and Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi, discussed new preschool education standards approved by the government in a homophobic context and described them as an imposed obligation aimed at changing the traditional roles of...