After the start of the trial of Donald Trump,  the 45th President of the US, on April 4, a number of Trump-linked images started circulating on Facebook. Georgian-language Facebook user “Gabi Kamaev” published a photo of Donald Trump leading his supporters. According to the description, Trump is headed for trial. In addition, on April 4,...

05.04.2023 Update: The comment from the Belgian TV channel 7SUR7 was added to the video. On March 30, 2023, the Russian propaganda media riafan.ru published an article which claimed that the National Gallery of London is planning to take down Jan van Eyck’s famous canvas – “Arnolfini Portrait,” because of the similarity of his character...

On April 3, 2023, Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1,2) shared a video showing an unknown woman dressed in a white dress being in a drunken state. The woman visually resembles MEP Viola von Cramon. One of the users published a 9-second version of the video, in which the woman is first seen in a sober state...

On March 30, 2023, Georgian- (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) and Russian-language (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Facebook accounts, as well as Russian media (Pravda.ru, aif.ru, dnr-news.ru, smotrim.ru, podolyaka.ru) disseminated information about the alleged explosion of NATO’s secret underground bunker. According to the posts spread on the social network, the Russian Air Force...

On March 28, 2023, the Russian propaganda media Ura.ru, as well as the Russian-language Facebook account, shared a fragment of the morning program of the American channel CBS, in which the reporter talks about the new tilted toilet seat, on which people will not be able to spend a lot of time due to its...

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...

Since March 27-28, 2023, Russian media outlets  (Vesti.ru, ura.ru, regnum.ru, tsargrad.tv, rambler.ru, 360tv.ru) and social media users have been circulating a video in which a loud conversation between a woman and a man in Russian and then the sound of gunfire can be heard. According to Russian media, the Ukrainian soldier got angry because the...

On March 25, 2023, Russian media and Russian– and Georgian-language Facebook users (1, 2, 3) published photos of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and a young naked woman who looks like her. The users claim that Baerbock is the person depicted in the photos and that she was engaged in prostitution in the past. “I...

On March 15, 2023, Giorgi Kardava, the host at pro-Kremlin “Alt-Info TV” and the chairman of the “Conservative Movement” party, answered a question about whether the European Union is asking Georgia to return the so-called Turkish Meskhetians, noting that it was not Georgia that was responsible for this, but the Soviet Union, and that he...

On March 16, 2023, a Georgian-language user Facebook user shared a screenshot of the article from the Russian language service of “Voice of America”. According to the caption, US Vice President Kamala Harris believes that Russian special services may be behind the “inappropriate behaviour” of President Joe Biden. In October 2022, other Georgian and Russian-language...

On March 23-24, 2023, the Facebook page “Political Graveyard N5” and several Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4) published a screenshot of the alleged Facebook post of journalist Vakho Sanaia, which was related to the visit of famous Georgian football player Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia. According to the post, Sanaia claims that despite going to...

On March 21-23, 2023, Kremlin media (Украина.ру and news-kiev.ru) and selected Russian- (1, 2, 3) Georgian-language (1, 2) Facebook accounts published the image of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on the cover of two different magazines, the American Newsweek And the cover of the French FRANC-TIREUR. Both versions refer to the meeting between the...