On May 22, TV “Alt-info”, associated with Levan Vasadze’s political movement “Unity, Essence, Hope – Nation”, aired an interview of Dimitri Lortkipanidze, head of the Primakov Georgian-Russian Public Center. Lortkipanidze speaks about Public Defender’s request to enter Ninotsminda Orphanage and claims that concordat grants the church the right to bar Public Defender from entering the...

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 –...

Speaking in the interview with Alt-TV on February 13, Dimitri Lortkipanidze, head of the Primakov Georgian-Russian Public Center, said that people are used for testing vaccines and that vaccines pose a threat, because they were created in an accelerated manner. To back up his words, Lortkipanidze cites Georgian immunologist, Bidzina Kulumbegov allegedly saying that Pfizer...

On 28 January, speaking in a talk show “Reaction” on TV Pirveli, Iveri Melashvili discussed, among other things, the process of defining a disputed section of the border. Various media outlets and political actors took only a fragment of the talk show and shared it extensively. The mentioned fragment contained few sentences, including the words...

On September 13, Levan Chachua, chairman of Georgian Idea public movement, published a post on his Facebook page about the coronavirus vaccines. Chachua claims that the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is involved in the purchase of vaccines to ensure that children in Georgia are subject to mandatory vaccination. Chachua notes that vaccination has been...

On August 31, an online outlet Zneoba.ge published a post on its Facebook page regarding the Parliament-adopted Code on the Rights of the Child. The outlet condemns the Code as the document that makes children confront God and destructs families. It also slams the UN for its role in developing the code, as well as...

On June 19, 2020, Sputnik Georgia published an article titled: “Eastern Partnership: An Imitation of an Integration”. The author of the article claims that the main goal behind the creation of Eastern Partnership (EaP) was to increase Brussel’s influence and deteriorate Russia’s relations with its neighbor and partner countries. The article also mentions that the...

On March 3, an online media outlet Georgia and World released another article about the Code on the Rights of the Child and the UNICEF reports headlined “Dimitri Lortkipanidze: Terror Named Juvenile Justice.” In the interview with Georgia and World, Dimitri Lortkipanidze, head of the Primakov Georgian-Russian Public Center, noted that according to UNICEF’s 2018...

On January 15, an online media outlet, Georgia and World, released an interview with Dimitri Lortkipanidze, head of the Primakov Georgian-Russian Center, who claims that 134,000 apartments in Georgia are allegedly owned by Iranian citizens. Earlier on January 7, the same issue was highlighted in the post released by Facebook page “დედაქალაქი” (Capital). According to...

A Georgian-Swedish movie “And then We Danced” was shown in Georgian cinemas on November 8, 9, 10. Screening of the movie was met with protest and violent actions from hate groups. Facebook pages affiliated with hate groups and pro-Russian actors were disseminating fake and manipulated context about the movie with the aim of mobilizing public...

According to Gorchakov Fund, Yevgeny Primakov’s 90th jubilee was celebrated on October 31, at Yevgeny Primakov Georgian-Russian Public Center in Tbilisi. As the distributed photo shows, the leader of “Free Georgia” Kakha Kukava attended the event along with Dimitri Lortkipanidze. Director of the Primakov Center, Dimitri Lortkipanidze, stated on the meeting that memorial plaque for...

On September 25, 2019, Georgia and World released an article headlined “Vazha Otarashvili: Let them visit any Arabic “bar” at Agmashenebeli Avenue or near the Parliament and they will see the pornography of Georgian teenagers.” Vazha Otarashvili of the Alliance of Patriots party said in the article that Foreign Minister Davit Zalkaliani has signed a...