In its edition on August 1-7 Georgian newspaper Alia published an article prepared by Global Research Center titled “The Lugar Laboratory in Georgia: Risks and Opportunities”, which contains disinformation about the activities of the Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research in Tbilisi. The newspaper’s editorial board confirmed that it was a paid article. Global...

Speculations concerning the juvenile justice issues with anti-Western context continue to take place in various media outlets. On July 17, in the program of Palitra News, Talk Show with Palavandishvili, the host, Guram Palavandishvili, assessed the juvenile justice as a deliberate struggle against family, while the head of the Orthodox Fathers’ Union, Avtandil Ungiadze, broadened this...

In 13-19 June 2016 edition of Asaval-Dasavali, an interview of the former Minister of Internal Affairs, Temur Khachishvili was published in which he stated that: “The West has not constructed any enterprises in Georgia in 25 years!” According to the data of the National Statistics Office of Georgia, the EU countries and the United States have...

On July 11, a web portal Politicano posted on its Facebook page an article titled “Russophobia Drives First U.S. Secretary of Defense Mad and He Commits Suicide.” The article claims that U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal bore hatred against Russians and he committed suicide jumping from the 16th floor of a psychiatric hospital and shouting”the Russians are coming.” Similar materials...

On July 11, a web portal Politicano posted on its Facebook page an article titled “Russophobia Drives First U.S. Secretary of Defense Mad and He Commits Suicide.” The article claims that U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal bore hatred against Russians and he committed suicide jumping from the 16th floor of a psychiatric hospital and shouting”the Russians are coming.” Similar materials echoing...

On June 21, 2016 political observer Alexander Chachia said in an interview with Asaval-Dasavali that Americans would not allow Georgia to get closer to the occupied territories and their populations, since that would go against the rhetoric of joining NATO, American bases and North Atlantic integrations. The claim that America is against Georgia getting closer...

Georgian media and social networks periodically disseminate information about the plan of Allen Dulles, an American diplomat and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Some media outlets propagate an idea that the plan was developed for the United States to sow chaos, corrupt national values and promote immorality following the World War II. In reality, the plan...

On June 29, internet portal Saqinform published incorrect claim that Minister of Defense Tina Khidasheli had called functioning of the NATO training centre in Georgia illegal. This news headlined “Scandal! Tina Khidasheli has recognized that the NATO training centre in Georgia is illegal”, is based on incorrect interpretation of the Minister’s words. On June 27, Minister...

On June 6, the online edition of the newspaper Georgian Times published the news entitled “Angela Merkel supported to create the EU’s common trade zone with Russia”. According to Georgian Times, at the meeting of Christian Democratic Union held in Mecklenburg, the Chancellor of Germany said that she supports to create common trade zone of the EU...

Banks and Finances, an online edition, ran an article on June 18 saying that Switzerland closed McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain after European Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos received more than 120 applications demanding a legal ban on any fast food. The article also focuses on the problems persisting in Italy, Spain and Germany in this regard...

On May 19 a group of Orthodox clerics expressed protest against the bill submitted to the Parliament for consideration, which envisages separation of a minor from an abusive parent. Priest Davit Isakadze said that separation of a minor from an abusive parent is equal to taking children away from their parents. Russian propaganda constantly manipulates with the...

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