On August 7, 2020, exactly 12 years have passed since the start of the Russo-Georgian War. The debates regarding the starting date of the war still causes disagreements in the Georgian politics. Russian Army intervened in Georgia on August 7, 2020, starting the Russo-Georgian military confrontation, however, some Russia-affiliated actors try to legitimize August 8 as...

On August 17, 2020, a news agency NSP.GEpublished an article titled “Scandalous Statement by a Russian General: We Were Not Planning to Enter Akhalgori in 2008 – We Occupied That Area Per Kakha Lomaia’s Request”. The article cites Vyacheslav Borisov, Major-General of Airborne Forces of Russia, whose interview was printed in a newspaper „საერთო გაზეთი“...

On August 11, “True  stories”, the “Obieqtivi” TV company program, aired a story about two citizens, who returned from France and refused to take a PCR test after a two-week quarantine. The television also covered the comment of the citizens’ father Kakhaber Kapanadze. According to him, people became ill after the testing, and his children,...

On August 11, 2020, Levan Vasadze posted a video-address to Bidzina Ivanishvili on Facebook. Together with other issues, he reviews the case of separating a three-year-old baby from a single mother by a social worker. Based on this specific incident, Vasadze discusses the negative consequences Child Rights’ Code in general and claims that the Code...

On August 1, Facebook user Mia Million published a video allegedly featuring a group of doctors in white lab coats, who are talking about their experience in fighting COVID-19. The caption accompanying the video notes that coronavirus does not kill and this video actually proves it. The author of the post writes that the video...

Pro-Russian actors have intensified anti-Turkish sentiments in the period of July 9-15. Various narratives related to Turkey, among them those about the Treaty of Kars, Adjara region, NATO membership and returning a mosque status to Hagia Sophia were voiced by some respondents and journalists of pro-Kremlin media outlets, News Front Georgia and Georgia and World....

On July 6, an official Facebook profile of the South Ossetian TV and Radio Company “ИР” run by the occupied region’s government shared a video headlined “Experiments on people in Georgia” in the group with the same name. The video has a caption “What is happening at Lugar Lab.” The media outlet posted an identical...

14 Georgian lawmakers have nominated Bondo Mdzinarashvili, editor-in-chief and host of Obieqtivi TV, a channel affiliated with the opposition Alliance of Patriots party, for a vacant seat in the Board of Trustees of Georgian Public Broadcaster. The TV channel and personally Bondo Mdzinarashvili are known for anti-Western, pro-Russian, Turkophobic remarks and hate speech. The Media...

On June 23, Facebook user Shore Shanidze published a post on her page highlighting the issue of mandatory vaccination. Shanidze claims that Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has signed a commitment, along with sixty other countries, on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Shanidze refers to Imedinews as its source of information. However, the news story published by...

On June 20, Facebook page “საქართველო უპირველეს ყოვლისა” (Georgia First of All) published a post dedicated, as it claims, to government officials and heads of Georgian National Disease Control Center (NDCC). The page accuses them of damaging Georgian population’s health and slams them for the regulations on wearing face masks. The Facebook page claims that...

The June 15 reports on an alleged plot to murder Georgian TV host Giorgi Gabunia and the arrest of a suspect have triggered various interpretations. Pro-government and antiliberal groups said that the murder had been masterminded by the opposition. Nika Gvaramia, director of Mtavari Arkhi TV, noted that the murder was ordered by Chechen leader...

Georgian pro-Kremlin actors and anti-liberal groups have been actively disseminating various messages and comparing the Georgian reality with the widespread protests, sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis (U.S.) on May 25. Oftentimes, the disseminated narratives were anti-American by their nature and were well-aligned with the official position of the Kremlin. Media with...