On December 17th, 2022, the program “Man and Law” of the First Channel of Russia concerned the Maidan events that took place in Ukraine in 2013-2014. One party of the story alleges that at the end of February 2014, Georgian snipers appeared in Kyiv and together with the Ukrainian opposition leaders, they have been shooting...

On October 14, 2022, the Facebook page of the Special Penitentiary Service published video footage showing former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s imprisonment. According to the explanation of the Penitentiary Service, the footage was made public due to high public interest, and it reflects different periods of Saakashvili’s imprisonment. In addition, the post stated that the...

On December 16-19th, Georgian (1,2,3) and Russian-language (1,2,3,4) Facebook accounts, as well as the Facebook page of the anti-liberal “Georgian Idea” party, published information about the resolution submitted by the Russian Federation to the United Nations, which concerned the condemnation Nazism, neo-Nazism and its other manifestations. According to some accounts, the countries that did not...

On December 13th, the portal “Georgia First” published a Georgian translation of an article by the US-sanctioned organization “Strategic Culture Foundation” about former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, titled “Merkel recalls how the US and NATO planned war in Ukraine against Russia.” According to the publication, “the comments of the former German Chancellor reveal that the...

In mid-December, Georgian and Russian Facebook users began spreading the claim that the World Economic Forum was introducing an international policy that would require pet owners to euthanize their pets in order to help reduce global warming and other environmental challenges caused by overpopulation. The authors of these posts cite two recent articles by CNN...

On December 11th, a Georgian-language Facebook account published photos of clothing and accessories designed to resemble human skin, claiming that these items were made by Balenciaga from human skin. The disseminated photos have nothing to do with Balenciaga or human skin. In fact, most of the clothing and accessories with human skin visuals were produced...

On December 10th, 2022, a Georgian-speaking Facebook user published a video clip in which two men dressed in military uniforms appear to be abusing a woman. In addition, in the published picture, the soldiers have blue armbands on their shoulders. According to the description of the post, the video was taken from the phone of...

On December 5-7th, Russian- (1,2,3,4,5) and Georgian-language (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) Facebook accounts, including the pro-governmental expert Soso Manjavidze, as well as the page “Global Orthodox Россия” have reported that Ukrainians who were baptized in the past by the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church” (Українська православна церква – УПЦ) will have to be re-baptized in the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”...

On December 2nd, 2022, the founder of the anti-liberal social movement “Georgian Mission,” Ramaz Gagnidze, published a photo of two half-naked men wearing wigs. According to the caption, the photo was taken at New York Pride in 1999 and shows the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the advisor of the Office of the President...

On December 5-7th, 2022, Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4,5,6), as well as Kremlin propaganda media outlet Pravda.ru and Russian-language Facebook accounts (1,2,3,4,5,6) have been disseminating the information that according to President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, the participation of representatives of the LGBTQ+ community in the Olympic Games will be mandatory, and their minimum...

On December 8th, 2022, a Georgian-speaking Facebook user published a post, according to which the Russian hacker group RaHDit leaked photos depicting the private life of Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska. The post is accompanied by a photo collage; one photo features Olena Zelenska herself, while in the second photo, the bodies of two women...

In early December, a number of Georgian (1, 2, 3) and Russian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) Facebook users shared a photo of a billboard from the U.S. The billboard shows a pregnant man with the caption “ALL men have the right to get pregnant. Support reproductive freedom.” The users who shared the...