On July 13, 2017, the host of one of the programs on the TV “Obiektivi”, Bondo Mdzinarashvili, stated that Russia tries not to annex Georgia, but rather to restore the borders of “South Ossetian administrative district” from Soviet times. Bondo Mdzinarashvili, TV host: “There exists no such thing as night or creeping [annexation] and, I...

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On May 27, 2017, on the day of death of an American political scientist, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a new Georgian left-wing political-economic portal Politicano published a photo, which, allegedly pictured Zbigniew Brzezinski and Osama Bin-Laden. The edition wanted to illustrate with this photo that USA was sponsoring Islamic fundamentalism. The caption of the photo is not true...

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Giorgi Revishvili Giorgi Revishvili is a Master Program student of Nationalism and Ethnic Studies at Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University (TSU). He is participant of National Security and Public Policy program at Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Rondeli Foundation). He studied at Viadrina European University in Germany – Faculty of European Studies (2016)....

On June 29, an online newspaper Geworld.ge released an article titled “Why the Sons of Bitches have Multiplied”, where journalist Giorgi Kordzadze claims that over the past two decades Georgia has been washed away by the wave of spiritual, physical and cultural disasters. One of the components of this wave is a foul language heard...

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On May 31, 2017, Georgian daily Rezonansi released an interview with MP Ada Marshania of opposition Alliance of Patriots party, where she claims that NATO tries to enter into dialogue with Russia. She also called on the Georgian government to establish a dialogue with the Russian Federation. Ada Marshania: “NATO itself seeks dialogue [with Russia]...