On April 9, Facebook page “მამული ენა სარწმუნოება” (Homeland, Language, Religion) published a post, saying that brigade commanders are calling on soldiers to get vaccinated, otherwise threatening with lockup. The author of the post claims that his closest friend provided him with this information from the army.   Facebook user ნინო პ. published the post...

Update: After the publication Giorgi Balkhamishvili contacted the “Myth Detector”. According to him, the Facebook page was created in his name, did not actually belong to him and served to discredit him.   On March 12, Georgia’s Prime-minister Irakli Gharibashvili’s photo was published by using the name of Shalva Kuchashvili, founder of the movement “Tsin’svla”....

On April 7, Facebook account Lasha Modebadze published the post stating that the president of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili introduced amendments to the healthcare law in April 2019, and the pandemic spectacle started at the end of 2019. Attached to the post is the screenshot of the April 2, 2019 amendments to the Law on Public...

  Esma Ananidze Esma Ananidze – obtained a master’s degree in Business Administration from St Tbel Abuseridze University. She currently works as an administrative manager at the branch of LEPL College “New Wave” in Khulo municipality. She is also a vocational education teacher. PUBLISHED MATERIAL:   Davit Beradze     Davit Beradze – is a...

On April 10, 2021, Facebook user Giorgi Jakhashvili published a post, claiming that 100 years ago, Russia gave away the territory belonging to Georgia to Turkey in exchange for Crimea for a term of 100 years, but Turkey has not returned this territory so far. Giorgi Jakhashvili: “100 years ago, Soviet Russia gave away the...

The host of Russia’s First Channel, journalist Vladimir Pozner arrived in Tbilisi with a delegation to celebrate his 87th birthday, which was followed by a protest by civic activists and the opposition party members. On the night of March 31, the demonstration was held near hotels “Rooms” and “Vinotel”. According to participants of the protest,...

2On March 24, Facebook user Giorgi Mamisashvili published the post with the inscription “In the near future, protect your children from poisonous vaccination; they will start without parental permission”. According to the author of the post, vaccination in schools will start without parental permission; the post has screenshots from ese.ge article attached. Ese.ge’s article has...

  On March 15, 2021, a Facebook user Giorgi Gulikashvili published a post mentioning that all publicly conducted vaccinations raise questions and does not create ground for trusting the vaccination. The post comes with two videos, with one of them showing a fragment from the video showing the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, getting...

The Strategic Defense Review (SDR) document for 2017-2020 released by the Ministry of Defense of Georgia in April.2017 officially recognizes Russia’s soft power as the key challenge to the country’s security. The Russkiy Mir Foundation established on June 21, 2007 by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin plays an important role in using the elements...

  Georgia launched the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out with the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 15. The first vaccine was publicly administered to the deputy head of the National Center for Disease Control Paata Imnadze, whereas the first vaccinated nurse was the “Evex” employee Lana Ubilava. The same day videos with captions questioning the vaccination disseminated on...

On March 15, Facebook user Larisa Tsitlanadze published the video several times depicting the doctor Lana Ubilava’s vaccination with COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine in Zugdidi. In the video caption, Larisa Tsitlanadze writes that the tip of the needle is misplaced on the vial, “as if the doctor withdrew the vaccine”. Larisa Tsitlanadze published the aforesaid video...

March 6, TV Pirveli aired an audio conversation allegedly between Bera Ivanishvili, Irakli Garibashvili and Anzor Chubinidze whose authenticity was initially questioned by the Georgian Dream lawmakers and dubbed as “a fabrication.” However, in the interview with Imedi TV on March 9, Bera Ivanishvili, son of the ruling party founder, Bidzina Ivanishvili, did not deny...