On April 14-17, 2023, the Russian-language Telegram channel ТелеДНО, the Russian platform dzen.ru, as well as the Russian- and Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) published the alleged image of the cover of the 337th issue of the British newspaper “The New European. The cover depicts the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr...

On April 27, 2023, the Russian-language anonymous Facebook account “Злой Ёжик” published a photo of a Ukrainian hryvnia banknote, noting that on Ukrainian hryvnias, “even the truth is Russian”. The inscription “Правда Руська” is outlined in red on the photo. The same claim was circulating on Russian-language websites in the past years as well (1,...

On April 29, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a video showing police taking a crying child out of a house while women wearing headscarves try to resist them. The people shown in the video speak German. According to the description, the video shows the removal of the youngest son from the family by social...

On April 12-14, 2023, a quote attributed to “TV Formula” journalist Tiko Eradze was disseminated on Facebook (1, 2). In the quote, the journalist talks about the founder of “Formula,” Davit Kezerashvili, allegedly claiming that Kezerashvili only robbed pro-Russian European pensioners in order to finance Georgia’s European future. The statement about Davit Kezerashvili attributed to...

On 26 April 2023, Viola von Cramon, a Member of the European Parliament, published a video on her official Twitter page, where she addressed the Kremlin-style smear campaign pursued against her in Georgia, stating that the “award of the “troll of the month” goes to Georgian trolls, who have even surpassed their Russian counterparts.” Namely,...

For a number of years now, the Kremlin media has been voicing and amplifying the disinformation about dangerous experiments being conducted in the Lugar Laboratory in Georgia. On February 24, Tristan Tsitelashvili, a past convict for military treason, spoke on this topic to the Russian propaganda media – Izvestiya, claiming that the military personnel sent...

On April 23-26, 2023, based on the Polish online portal Neon24, Russian online publications (ukraina.ru, Russia Today, tverskaya13.ru, voennoedelo.com, eadaily.com) as well as Russian– and Georgian-language Facebook users disseminated information about the alleged creation of a Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian military corps, arguing that the planned Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian corps will include 20-25 thousand military contract workers. The sources also...

On April 22, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a video of a man wearing high heels and a glittery suit dancing with the Ukrainian flag. The following caption is attached to the video: “Gay Prides in Ukraine.” The disseminated post contains elements of video manipulation. The video, in which a man dances with the Ukrainian...

On April 21, a photo of Dea Mamiseishvili, a journalist of the critical TV company “Mtavari Arkhi”, was published in the Facebook group “Archive of Enemies of the Country.” In the photo, the journalist wears a white T-shirt with the inscription “My Bra is too tight.” One Facebook user shared the same photo on April...

On April 19, 2023, the news program of Russia’s “Channel Five” voiced a claim that the anti-coronavirus vaccines available in the United States of America are hazardous to health. According to the journalist of Channel Five, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the use of the two most popular American vaccines, Moderna...

On April 20, 2023, a document prepared by the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) of the United Nations was discussed in the primetime program of the Georgian pro-Kremlin and “Conservative Movement” affiliated “Alt-Info” TV. According to Shota Martinenko, one of the leaders of the “Conservative Movement” and the host of “Alt-Analytics” program, the UN recommends...

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...