Massive violence erupted between locals in the southern town of Dmanisi of Kvemo Kartli region on May 17 following a shop incident that took place a day earlier. The Interior Ministry, riot police and government officials had to intervene to defuse the tensions. The confrontation between Georgian citizens – local ethnic Georgian and Azerbaijani population –...

On May 14, Facebook page სოფელ უდეს მონასტრები (Monasteries of the Village Ude) shared monastrisnobati.ge article about Catholics celebrating Ascension Day on May 13 in village Buzmareti. The article titled “Annual Invasion of Parish from the Latin Church of Rome in the Orthodox Churches of Buzmareti” notes that for two years, law enforcement officers haven’t...

On May 13, Facebook page “პოლიტ ამბები/Polit-News” disseminated information alleging that one of the shareholders of Mtavari Arkhi Giorgi Rurua will be #1 on the United National Movement’s party list. According to the post, he confirmed this information in a phone talk with journalists. The post by “Polit-News” is disinformation. In a phone talk with...

On May 7 and May 8, a number of Facebook users published an opinion voiced by Russian Academician Aleksandr Redko about COVID-19 vaccines. Redko claims that since phase 3 trials have yet to be conducted, patients automatically become participants of an experiment. (xanax) Moreover, vaccinated people are carriers of infection and they get sick twice...

On May 9, Russia and part of post-Soviet countries mark the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II – the conflict dubbed by Russia as the Great Patriotic War. The march of the Immortal Regiment is one of integral parts of the May 9 celebrations. During previous years, the Immortal Regiment also held its...

On February 23 police raided headquarters of Georgia’s largest opposition party United National Movement (UNM) and  arrested1 its leader Nika Melia. During the raid, police used tear gas to disperse Melia’s supporters who had barricaded themselves inside the party’s office. Melia’s arrest sparked a series of critical statements from the EU and US officials, policy...

  Speaking about COVID-19 vaccines on April 23, Giorgi Pkhakadze, head of Accreditation Without Borders (Accréditation Sans Frontières), an international, non-profit organization, said during a Facebook live stream that mainly British variant of COVID-19 is currently circulating in Georgia and the available vaccines are more or less effective against this variant, while the Chinese vaccine...

A video titled “What Is Actually Going On? Doctors Are Speaking Out” was published on the Facebook page of TV Akhali on April 30. In the video, Nona Aghdgomelashvili and Giorgi Liluashvili talk about the anti-coronavirus vaccines. On May 2, a Facebook page „თავისუფალი არხი ‘ილიონი’“ (Free Channel “Ilioni”) published a video titled “COVID Vaccination...

On April 20 Facebook page „ბავშვთა უფლებების დაცვის საზოგადოება“ (“Society for Protecting Children’s rights”) shared a video, where representatives of this society Guram Palavandishvili and Aleksandre Palavandishvili state that, the goal of the ombudsman for entering Ninotsminda’s children’s home is to deprave underaged people.   Aleksandre Palavandishvili: “In the children’s home under the guidance of...

After the resignation of Georgia’s prime minister Giorgi Gakharia on February 18, several Facebook accounts (Gakharias Partiis Mkhardamcherebi (Supporters of Gakharia’s Party), Gakharia Dabrundes (Let Gakharia Return), public groups, and pages supporting the former minister appeared on the social network. “Myth Detector” detected 14 Facebook pages that were made to support the former prime minister...

Gogava, head of Development Laboratory of Georgia, a local non-governmental organization, published a post on his Facebook page about the decision made by the United States and the Coalition to withdraw all troops involved in Resolute Support Mission (RSM) from Afghanistan before September 11th. In his post published on April 15, Gogava calculates monetary value...

On April 21, Imedi TV aired a program Prime Show dedicated to the issue of COVID-19 vaccines. Anti-vaxxers, infectious disease doctors and other medical specialists were invited to the program to assess the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines. A fragment of the program from 5:18 minute, where Georgian homeopath Tina Topuria speaks about vaccines, was posted...