n 2nd February, “Georgia and the World” published an article, in which it made unjustified generalizations based on abortion statistics in Georgia, and claimed that the existing situation would lead to a physical destruction of the Georgian Nation, which would be accelerated by the process of Visa Liberalization. Georgia and the World: “Statistics such as...

On 27th January 2017, the news “recruited Georgian fighters are returning from Ukraine to Georgia, due to the non-payment of salaries” was posted on tb24.ge. The publication is based on a Luhansk Republic’s People’s Militia representative, Andrei Marochko’s statement, diffused throughout Russian media (Ria Novosti, Novorossia Vision, Rusnewstoday24). (appliedconcepts) Andrei Marochko: “38 recruited fighters of the so-called...

On January 22, 2016 Georgian Public Broadcaster televised a report about the foreign policy chosen by Georgia according to the results of the NDI survey. The report about the country’s foreign policy orientation included Akhalkalaki resident’s comment in which she expressed fears about NATO and claims that during crisis instead of sending their own fighters, Americans send...

On December 25, The Georgian Times and nsp.ge disseminated information piece, titled “Nadezhda Savchenko moves to Russia due to Private Security Reasons”. According to the publication, a member of the Parliament of Ukraine (Verkhovna Rada), Nadezhda Savchenko was planning to leave Ukraine together with her family due to private security reasons. The article states BBC as its source as well as cites...

On December 8, 2016, an article by the Head of Eurasian Institute, Gulbaat Rtskhiladze – On the Absurdness of “Russian Propaganda” – was published on the webpage of Georgia and World. In the articles, Rtskhiladze speaks of increasing rating of a Russian informative TV channel RT (Russia Today) in Europe and the USA.    ...

It has been several days, that information as if Facebook will be turned off during weekend days, was spread via social networks. Similar stories were published by some web-portals, including primetime.ge and mshoblebi.ge. The new topic about this information was also created on Forum.ge. The news evoked different reactions among Facebook’s Georgian users. In fact,...

On December 1, 2016, an online-edition mediacity.ge published an Armenophobic article “Armenians’ Black November in UNESCO – Dolma has been attributed to Azerbaijani Culture”, that concerned the event of granting Georgian alphabet a world heritage status. The article says: “Georgian is one of the 14 main writing systems in the world. In contrast, up until 2013, the...

On November 21-27, newspaper Asaval-Dasavali published an interview with oceanographer Nodar Tsivtsivadze, where he expresses his suspicions as if instead of deep Sea port, American naval base is being constructed in Anaklia. At different times, analogous information was spread by Russian Government owned media outlets Ria Novosti and Sputnik, as well as Georgian news agency “Sakinformi” which openly declares...

On November 2, pro-kremlin Russian information agency Pravda.ru published disinformation as if Finnish authorities deprived two daughters from Russian citizen Svetlana Rots. The reason was not to let mother take the girls out of Finland to Russia. The article also includes assessments of Russian human rights activists claiming that these facts are the manifestation of Russophobia. According...

On 16 November, Media Development Foundation (MDF) released its annual report on “Hate Speech” depicting media monitoring findings of Georgian TV, online and print media. Report covers the period from January 1, 2016 to October 15, 2016 and reveals various sources of hate speech including media itself, political parties, clergy, public organizations and others. As the report...

On October 31, an information agency, Tbilisi 24, disseminated information about granting a visa-free regime by the United States to Belarus. According to the agency, Belarus is the 39th country that does not require visa to enter the US, as only electronic authorization is sufficient. Attached with the given information is a Russian language primary source that redirects...

Disinformation about NATO military operations is periodically disseminated via Georgian media. On October 19, 2016, a journalist of Georgia and World noted in an article: “Show me at least one country that NATO entered and where there is peace now!” Myth Detector presents factual material on some of the interventions of NATO that were followed...