Update: Foxnews.ge publicly apologized for disseminating unverified photos and deleted the article. On May 14, 2017, social networks saw a dissemination of Foxnews.ge material, titled “Only 18+!!! Turks trade with organs of living Syrian children.” The article is based on a Greek hellasforce.com publication concerning the Syrian children organ trade in Turkey. The article comes with several...

On May 6, 2017, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed a budgetary act supporting the territorial integrity of Georgia (2017 US Consolidated Appropriations Act). According to the given law, the countries that recognize the independence of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, occupied by Russia, and will establish diplomatic relations with them, will not...

On April 24, 2017, primetime.ge released an interview with Eva Gotsiridze, member of the High Council of Justice, in which she slams the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for its decision to temporarily suspend the enforcement of the Georgian Supreme Court’s ruling over the Rustavi 2 TV case. Eva Gotsiridze, member of the High Council of...

On March 13, 2017, agora.ge published an article entitled “Georgia was put on the list of endangered countries”, which was published on May 4 by ‘Ganatlebis Saxli’ (Education House) and oknws.com on their web-blogs and on May 5 by the media portal ‘Geo Digest’ with identical titles. The statistical data for the article is taken from countrymeters.info, which, in...

Tamar Kiknadze, political analyst, told Obieqtivi TV’s political talk show Gamis Studia (Night Studio) on April 24 that the Treaty of Kars envisages the right of Muslim population to participate in a referendum. In particular, she said: Tamar Kiknadze, political analyst: “Economic and demographic expansion is underway. And if we look through the Treaty of Kars,...

On April 25, Sakinformi news portal released a story titled“Refugee rapes German woman in front of her boyfriend.” According to the story, a refugee from Ghana dragged a young German woman from her tent and raped her while she was on a camping trip with her boyfriend in the Siegaue Nature Reserve near Bonn. The story...

On April 25, Sakinformi news portal released a story titled “Refugee rapes German woman in front of her boyfriend.” According to the story, a refugee from Ghana dragged a young German woman from her tent and raped her while she was on a camping trip with her boyfriend in the Siegaue Nature Reserve near Bonn....

In 10-16 April issue of ‘Asaval-Dasavali’, Zviad Tomaradze, director of ‘Saqartvelos Demografiuli Sazogadoeba XXI’ (Georgian Demographic Society XXI), stated that Russia is not the first country to ban activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses, because the endeavors of Jehovah’s Witnesses are restricted in 70 countries across the globe, including Montenegro and France. Zviad Tomaradze,‘Saqartvelos Demografiuli Sazogadoeba XXI’...

On April 7, as a response to the Syrian governmental forces’ offensive on the city of Khan-Shaykhun in Idlib province (April 4), the United States implemented a cruise missile attack on Shayrat Airbase. Several Pro-Kremlin media outlets, politicians and members of public voiced their response towards this event and noted that the Syrian government has...

On April 11, 2017, the news webpage of TV Imedi (imedinews.ge) published an information piece called “Serbia Builds a Memorial for the Victims of NATO Aggression”. The given material is not objective and does not reflect the true situation regarding Kosovo, as both the title of the piece, as well as its content points to an ‘aggression’...

On March 11, anchor Gia Areshidze on ‘TV Obieqtivi’ show ‘Gamis Studia’ discussed about the undemocratic nature of European Union institutions, the problem of the electoral system within them, as well as the undemocratic nature of the media and journalists. Gia Areshidze, anchor:  “I said that it is a dreadful union with all its structures...

Media Development Foundation (MDF) released report “Financial Transparency of Media 2016”. According to the report, budget organizations continue to enter into contracts with such media outlets that use hate speech and fan anti-Western sentiments. In contrast to the previous period, the contractors, in 2016, included an openly pro-Russian edition “Tbilisi 24” which has ties with the...