Attacks against liberalism from pro-Russian, on the one hand, and from ethno-nationalist forces, on the other hand, experienced a sharp rise during the pre-election period and at times, became a part of the pre-election campaign. A pre-election video clip of one of the leaders of “Dimitri Lortkipanidze, Kakha Kukava – Democratic Movement – Free Georgia”...

As of October 23, 2017, antivirus programs identify a viral program Application.BitCoinMiner.SX on a Georgian tabloid, npa.ge. The viral program was unauthorizedly using the power of the guest computers with the aim of earning cryptocurrency. Myth Detector calls internet users for caution and advises them to visit the given website only provided the antivirus programs...

On October 4, while hosting Night Studio on TV Obiektivi, Bondo Mdzinarashvili stated that the West does not allow Georgia to conduct direct dialogue with Russia independently. According to him, the existence of the direct dialogue is up to Moscow and Tbilisi, as well as Tbilisi and Sokhumi and Tbilisi and Tskhinvali to decide. Bondo...

On 5 October 2017, an online edition “Georgia and World” published an article titled “Our Government Will Also Resettle 100 Thousand Northern Africans in Exchange for 500 Million Euros”. As the author of the article claims, the European Commission will allocate 500 million Euros to those countries that would receive 50 thousand migrants from the...

On September 27, 2017, the online edition “Saqartvelo da Msoflio” (Georgia and the World) published an  article entitled  “How Homosexuality is dispersed throughout Georgia, and what technics are used to bestialize our citizens.” The publication examines the so-called ‘Overtone Window’ theory following the examples of homosexuality and cannibalism, and has an incline to demonstrate sexual...

On September 29, an article titled “Up to 20 Kindergrardens in Sweden Abolish the Term ‘Sex’” was published on the news website of TV Imedi. Imedi indicates CNN as the source. Imedinews.ge’s publication is manipulative, as Georgian editions translated the CNN article imprecisely and incompletely. The following errors have been found in Imedi’s article after...

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Georgian users were actively sharing on Facebook an article “iPhone X to include revolutionary arsehole recognition technology” posted on Newsthump.com on September 12. The article reads that the new iPhone X will reportedly recognize the unique arsehole signature of its users and automatically log them in. In particular, two cameras mounted to the device will...

Arno Khidirbegishvili, editor-in-chief of the news agency Sakinform, told the newspaper Asaval-Dasavali in an interview for their issue of the week of September 4-10 that the United States and NATO had only 500 pairs of cheap shoes to donate for the campaign against the wildfire raging in Borjomi Gorge, which are used for the burial...

On September 6, an online edition Geworld.ge posted an interview with Archpriest Guram Gamtsemlidze titled “How can the West teach us to respect women, when they cannot distinguish men from women?!” Speaking about the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, adopted by the Council of Europe in 2011, in the context of legislative obligations undertaken by...

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