On September 4, 2017, Konstantine Morgoshia, one of the organisers of “Georgian March” uploades bank requisites of his organisation on social networking site Facebook, calls on their supporters to transfer financial donations. The account is located in a bank owned by an Arabian business group. “Georgian March” demands the tightening of immigratory legislation and calls...

On November 1, the online newsletter Geworld.ge published an article entitled “We want Georgian Georgia” The article cites a comment by politologist Hamlet Chipashvili, in which he states that Georgia’s Association Agreement with the EU puts Europe in an advantageous position, as it can push freely european products on Georgian market, but on the other...

An online edition mega-news.us and tbilisipress.compublished information with identical content and title – “Georgian Girl Killed in China?” – on November 6 and November 9, respectively. Materials of the both editions come with an identical photo that, according to the authors, shows the victim, the Georgian girl. The photo attached to the article shows an attempted murder of...

On October 25, 2017, online editions Geworld.ge and Sakinform released an identical article headlined “Neither God, nor Mankind Needs Ungrateful Man and Nation!” The publication contains historical fabrications about the Russian-Georgian relations in the 19th century. The author rejects annexation of Georgian kingdoms and principalities by Russia and notes that Georgia joined Russia of its...

On October 19, 2017, a member of the Alliance of Patriots, Vaja Otarashvili made a xenophobic statement against the individuals with Asian identity on air at TV Obiektivi, by saying that they change their names and surnames with Georgian ones on the basis of residence permit. As the representative of the Alliance of Patriots evaluates,...

On October 17, 2017, Facebook news page “Politicano” uploaded a video accompanied with a text message, which discusses the opening of Tbilisi metro during the Soviet government and the merits of the soviet government in the realisation of the project. In the editorial note, it is also mentioned that while the Soviet Union was building...

On October 28, Levan Khidisheli, who is affiliated with the Georgian March movement, posted on his Facebook page a photo depicting a man, who as he claimed, was a Georgian citizen beaten to death just for stealing a jacket in Turkey. The post was accompanied by Turkophobic calls with a hashtag “Turkey is our enemy.”...

On October 28, Levan Khidisheli, who is affiliated with the Georgian March movement, posted on his Facebook page a photo depicting a man, who as he claimed, was a Georgian citizen beaten to death just for stealing a jacket in Turkey. The post was accompanied by Turkophobic calls with a hashtag “Turkey is our enemy.”...

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On October 16, 2017, during the debate show ‘Archevani’ on the television channel Rustavi 2, Kakha Kukava leader of the political party “Free Georgia” made a claim that the fronts of establishments situated on Kutaisi street in Batumi and on Aghmashenebeli avenue in Tbilisi are covered with inscriptions in Arabic writings with no Georgian equivalent...

Irakli Iagorashvili Irakli Iagorashvili is a student at the Faculty of Science and Arts of Ilia State University. He has been engaged in civil activism since 2013. He has participated in the projects by UN Association–Advancing National Integration in Georgia (ANI) and Promoting Integration Tolerance and Awareness (PITA). In 2015, he was in the United...

In the past few days, we have seen Georgian and foreign media outlets report, that the British government offered to replace the term “pregnant women” with “pregnant people” in the United Nations “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”. Basing themselves on the news reported by the British edition of the Times, Imedi News, Saqinform,...