On 8 November 2017, online news agency Tb24.ge published an article entitled “The European Union has weakened, this is the beginning of the end“, which discusses the meeting between President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda. Tb24.ge claims,that during a joint press conference the Polish President refuted Georgia’s aspirations to join...

Tabloid Asaval-Dasavali released an article in its October 23-29 edition headlined “And These People Teach Us How to Live.” The editorial board claims that Europe promotes depravity instead of democracy, adding that tourists from the Great Britain, Germany, Sweden and Holland purposely arrive in Serbia to have sex with animals, as zoophiles are offered sex...

On October 16, 2017, during the debate show ‘Archevani’ on the television channel Rustavi 2, Kakha Kukava leader of the political party “Free Georgia” made a claim that the fronts of establishments situated on Kutaisi street in Batumi and on Aghmashenebeli avenue in Tbilisi are covered with inscriptions in Arabic writings with no Georgian equivalent...

Irakli Iagorashvili Irakli Iagorashvili is a student at the Faculty of Science and Arts of Ilia State University. He has been engaged in civil activism since 2013. He has participated in the projects by UN Association–Advancing National Integration in Georgia (ANI) and Promoting Integration Tolerance and Awareness (PITA). In 2015, he was in the United...

Attacks against liberalism from pro-Russian, on the one hand, and from ethno-nationalist forces, on the other hand, experienced a sharp rise during the pre-election period and at times, became a part of the pre-election campaign. A pre-election video clip of one of the leaders of “Dimitri Lortkipanidze, Kakha Kukava – Democratic Movement – Free Georgia”...

On October 12, during the program ‘Night Studio’ on Obieqtivi TV, member of the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia, Giorgi Maghlakelidze made a statement that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made it known that NATO is looking for ways to open up dialogue with Russia and at the same time he is glad that the...

The last issue of the Asaval-Dasavali newspaper (October 16-22, 2017) claims that the life in the Tsarist Russia was more pleasant than in European countries. The article, titled “The Salary Equivalent of a pre-Revolution Janitor was USD 1,200 by Modern Exchange Rate” presents the following picture of pre-revolution Russia: Giorgi Gigauri, journalist: “It is also...

On October 4, while hosting Night Studio on TV Obiektivi, Bondo Mdzinarashvili stated that the West does not allow Georgia to conduct direct dialogue with Russia independently. According to him, the existence of the direct dialogue is up to Moscow and Tbilisi, as well as Tbilisi and Sokhumi and Tbilisi and Tskhinvali to decide. Bondo...

On October 4, 2017,  www.npa.ge published a video titled “How Arabs Insult the Savior at Narikala.” According to the author of the video, the footage shows how ethnically Arab people insult the savior by imitating him on the “cross”. The npa.ge material comes with a xenophobic tag – “Dirty Arabs”. The same video, with a title “’Arab...

On October 4, 2017,  www.npa.ge published a video titled “How Arabs Insult the Savior at Narikala.” According to the author of the video, the footage shows how ethnically Arab people insult the savior by imitating him on the “cross”. The npa.ge material comes with a xenophobic tag – “Dirty Arabs”. The same video, with a...

On September 29, an article titled “Up to 20 Kindergrardens in Sweden Abolish the Term ‘Sex’” was published on the news website of TV Imedi. Imedi indicates CNN as the source. Imedinews.ge’s publication is manipulative, as Georgian editions translated the CNN article imprecisely and incompletely. The following errors have been found in Imedi’s article after...

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