On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Soon after, Kremlin actors linked the warrant to the release of Imran Ahmad Khan, the brother of Karim Khan, an International Criminal Court prosecutor. Imran Ahmad Khan was serving a sentence for sexually harassing a teenager. On March...

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 14, 2023, during the primetime program of the pro-Kremlin Alt-Info TV, speaking about the actions against the draft law “On the transparency of foreign influence”, Giorgi Kardava, the chairman of the pro-Kremlin “Conservative Movement” party, noted that the participants of these protests are not people who love and cherish Georgian traditions and identity,...

On March 13-16, Russian propaganda media (РИА НОВОСТИ, РОССИЯ 1,  MK.RU, bloknot.ru, СПЖ) reported that the crosses of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra have blackened. In the articles, this phenomenon is linked to the expulsion of the priests of the Moscow Patriarchate from the church, claiming that the event is the divine punishment for the priest...

On March 15, 2023, a screenshot of the Russian language service of “Radio Liberty” was disseminated on social media (1,2.)  According to the caption, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland cancelled her unplanned visit to Georgia. In the post descriptions, Facebook accounts wrote that Nuland didn’t have time to bake a “Chebureki” (pie) and...

On March 14, the “Unknown World News” program of the pro-government Maestro TV aired an interview with Scott Ritter, a former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector and well-known Kremlin propagandist. Ritter spoke about the protests in Tbilisi against the draft law on the “transparency of foreign influence” and amplified narratives voiced by the...

On March 10-13, 2023, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook users (1, 2, 3, 4) published a fragment of the video address of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to the posts, in his address, Zelenskyy stated that he wishes Georgia the same success as the Ukrainians achieved on the Maidan. On March 11, Zelenskyy’s video...

On March 8, 2023, the Russian-language propaganda portal КРАСНАЯ ВЕСНА, as well as on the Russian- (1, 2, 3, 4) and Georgian-language Facebook accounts disseminated a claim, according to which Poland is demanding the return of the money unreasonably paid to Ukrainian refugees. КРАСНАЯ ВЕСНА and Facebook accounts use the Polish media outlet – Rzeczpospolita...

On March 3rd, 2023, the Russian-language political portal utyug.info, as well as Russian– and Georgian-language Facebook accounts, disseminated the claim that the Vinnytsia Diocese of Ukraine – УЦС КП (Kyiv Patriarchate) officially gave the Orthodox parish blessing for murder. The information is accompanied by a photo of the announcement, which features the following inscription in...

On March 12th, 2023, the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Garibashvili, visited the “Imedis Kvira” program of the pro-governmental “Imedi TV,” where, during an extensive interview, he spoke about the law on “transparency of foreign influence” and the March 7-9 protests in Tbilisi. Speaking about the demonstrations, Gharibashvili accused Ukraine of interfering in the internal...

In the first reading at the parliamentary session on March 7th, 76 Georgian MPs passed the draft law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” initiated by the “People’s Power” fraction of the “Georgian Dream” party. According to the draft law, which was withdrawn by the parliament on March 10th as a result of protests, all non-commercial...

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,...