On 29 December 22, a Georgian Facebook user posted a video of Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, speaking at the B20 Summit on 14 November 2022. According to the author of the post, Schwab stated that “We are intentionally causing chaos at the international level to achieve the...

On January 9th, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a photo taken in Milan, Italy, showing a sculpture of a nose with white powder scattered around it. According to the author of the post, the Italians called the sculpture “Zelenskyy’s nose”. The mentioned photo was published by the Kremlin’s propaganda outlet Eurasia Daily and several...

On January 2nd, 2023, a quote by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán about Hungary leaving the European Union was widely disseminated among Georgian (1,2,3,4,5,6) and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3). According to the quote, Orbán said that Hungary was part of the European family, but it turned out to be an “LGBT family.” Viktor Orbán: “We...

On December 27th, 2022, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a post about Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska with the headline: “Paid for by donors.” According to the description, the photo shows the first lady of Ukraine with expensive clothes and accessories. The description also claims that Germans make fun of Zelenska because she spends the...

On December 31st, 2022, Georgian-language Facebook users and Russian-language websites (1, 2, 3) started disseminating the claims that from February to December 2022, the wealth of high-ranking Ukrainian officials increased dramatically, specifically mentioning the president, the minister of foreign affairs, the minister of defence, the head of the president’s office and the mayor of Kyiv....

On December 27th, 2022, a Georgian-language Facebook account published a photo of Olaf Scholz with the following description: “Olaf Scholz forgot to turn off the microphone and called Zelenskyy a prostitute.” According to the author, the incident happened after the Chancellor’s speech, while discussing the impossibility of sending tanks from Germany to Ukraine. On December...

On December 25th, 2022, a photo collage with the caption: “A set of New Year’s toys in Ukraine” was circulated in a Georgian-language anti-vax group. Three photos show Christmas tree toys with a swastika and the inscription “Sieg Heil”, while the fourth photo shows toys with the logo of NATO and the Ukrainian Azov Regiment....

On December 22-23rd, 2022, Russian propaganda media Правда, as well as Russian (1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and Georgian (1, 2) published a photo of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the white house. Apart from Zelenskyy, the photo depicts the President of the US, Joe Biden and the First Lady of the US, Jill Biden, while...

On December 20th, 2022, Georgian-language Facebook users and the Facebook account of the “Georgian Times” published a fragment of the “Timely Questions” program aired on December 5th. In the program, Rezo Mishveladze, writer and a member of the Parliament of the 5th convocation of Georgia, talked about the process of recording nationality in identity documents,...

On December 22nd, 2022, the Facebook page of the Russian propaganda media Ukraina.ru published a photo of the cover of the French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo.” The caricature depicts the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is running in the background of a Christmas scene with various things in his hands. According to the description,...

On 20 December, the pro-Kremlin Georgian website Alt-Info published an article claiming that the European Union had proposed that its member states erect fences along their borders to fight against illegal immigration. The article claimed Manfred Weber, head of the “European People’s Party,” the leading faction in the European Parliament, had stated this decision in...

On December 15-17th, Russian (Аргументи и Факты, info24.ru, Иносми) and Georgian (Georgia and World) media outlets reported that the dates of the Polish annexation of Western Ukraine are already known. The mentioned outlets cite the Polish edition “Dziennik Polityczny” as the source. In the article, Polish columnist Hanna Kramer names specific dates of the annexation...