On April 20, 2023, in the prime time program of the Georgian pro-Kremlin “Sezoni TV,” the host, Nikoloz Mzhavandze, claimed that in one of the schools in Great Britain, naked men are being introduced to students. The program also showed a video in which four naked men enter a room of 5 schoolchildren, where the...

According to the decision of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, on March 29, 2023, the agreement on the free use of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate was terminated based on the conclusions of the interdepartmental working group. Monks and priests of Kyiv-Pechersk were given...

On March 20, 2023, the Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2) published a photo and an alleged quote of US President Joe Biden. According to them, Biden said that he is ready for negotiations with Russian President Gorbachev in order to prevent the escalation of the conflict. The same quote was also voiced by the host...

On March 8, the primetime program of the Georgian pro-Krmelin “Sezoni TV, aired a shot from the protest held on March 8th in Tbilisi, showing two people. The footage shows a white cross symbol on their arms, and a bottle can also be observed lying on the pavement. The guest of the program, Paata Abuladze,...

At the end of November 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine began conducting searches in the churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (УПЦ МП) of the Moscow Patriarchate in various regions of the country. According to the security service, in November, counterintelligence operations were carried out in 350 churches, checking 850 people. According to the...

On December 1st, 2022, in the program of the Georgian pro-Kremlin “Sezoni TV,” while discussing the current war in Ukraine, the host of the program, Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, noted that in the background of the war, the “business of organ trading” has been launched in Ukraine and the organs of injured people are being exported to...

On November 11th, 2022, the Facebook account “Chemi Sakartvelo Ak Aris” [My Georgia is Here] published the following quote by the US Ambassador Kelly Degnan about the Mayor of Tsalkenjikha, Gia Kharchilava: “All municipalities of Georgia should be governed by an erudite and work-oriented mayors like him…” The post is accompanied by a photo featuring...

On October 18th, 2022, during a daytime program of the pro-Kremlin “Sezoni TV,” the host Nikoloz Mzhavanadze discussed the Russia-Ukraine war with guests Tristan Tsitelashvili and Vazha Otarashvili. According to one of the guest speakers, since September, the Ukrainian side has launched a counterattack in two directions, Kharkiv and Kherson, claiming that the counterattack in...

On September 29th, Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, the host at Sezoni TV, claimed that the North Stream gas pipelines were blown up by the United States of America. As an argument, Mzhavanadze noted that before the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, Joe Biden said that if Russia invaded Ukraine, he would blow up the North Stream. Nikoloz...

Shortly after the death of Daria Dugina, the daughter of the founder of the Eurasianist movement and far-right philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, pro-Russian actors on social networks began to spread fragments of Dugin’s 2019 interview. The videos were shared mainly by the pro-Kremlin party “Conservative Movement” and their supporters (1, 2), as well as by Levan...

On 2 August, Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, the presenter of “Dgis Shejameba” [“Sumarr of the day”] program aired on the TV Sezoni broadcasting company, said that the US has not earmarked any of its assistance for the preservation of religious buildings and that the Gelati restoration was an exception to the rule.  Nikoloz Mzhavanadze: “… From those...

On June 20, 2022, three years after the infamous “Gavrilov Night”, hundred of thousands of Georgians gathered at Rustaveli Ave to once again stress the commitment of the Georgian people to the “Western values.” Organized by the ‘Shame Movement, the rally named “Home to Europe’ aimed at showing the European aspirations of the Georgian people...