On December 7th, 2022, Georgian– and Russian-language (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8). Facebook users disseminated a caricature featuring the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrapped in a condom. Next to the image of Zelenskyy, one can observe the following caption: “Some people should never have been born.” According to the attached description, the image is from an advertisement by...

On November 30th, 2022, Kremlin propaganda media РИА Новости published an interview with the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, in which he stated that Poland wants to seize Western Ukraine and decided to use “Russia’s successful experience of holding a referendum” to legitimize this goal. According to Naryshkin, the President of Poland,...

On December 1st, 2022, in the program of the Georgian pro-Kremlin “Sezoni TV,” while discussing the current war in Ukraine, the host of the program, Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, noted that in the background of the war, the “business of organ trading” has been launched in Ukraine and the organs of injured people are being exported to...

In late November, a number of Georgian Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3, 4) posted about a supposed interview Tesla gave in 1899 with the journalist John Smith. The same interview has also been shared by a number of Russian Facebook accounts from 2017 onwards (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). According to the posts,...

On November 30, a photo of the 3D graffiti caricature of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was disseminated by Kremlin propaganda media outlets, including Channel One, Russia Today, ВЕСТИ, Украина.ру, Известия, Аргументы и Факты და Федеральное Агентство Новостей. According to the Kremlin media, the photo was taken in Paris, and the authors of the graffiti posted...

On November 30th, 2022, Russian media, including Regnum, Ren.tv ,Vzglyad, Politcentr, and Georgian Facebook accounts disseminated the claim that the statistics of HIV infection in Poland became record high after the influx of Ukrainian refugees. Russian publications refer to Polish media – Wirtualna Polska as a source of information. The authors of the Facebook posts...

At the end of November 2022, the Facebook page “More Positive” published screenshots of the online outlet Netgazeti/Batumelebi (1,2,3,4). The screenshots have identical visuals as Netgazeti and feature the following headlines: “A girl in Nakhalovka stabbed a thief in law”, “A person who made fake visas for Khashuri was arrested”, “Electricity came instead of water...

After the launch of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, one of the most widespread methods of Kremlin propaganda was to fabricate the covers of prominent Western publications. This type of false imagery aimed to create the impression as if the well-known magazines mock and ridicule the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy...

On November 29th, 2022, Georgian language Facebook users published a photo of the cover of Time magazine, showing Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in a kimono, throwing US President Joe Biden to the ground. The photo features the caption: “The situation is paused.” In the past months, the same photo was distributed among Russian-speaking Facebook...

On 8 November 2022, a Georgian Facebook user posted a vintage image of a European town square. According to the author, there are no power wired in the image, and instead the photo shows an antenna designed to deliver electricity wirelessly. The author claims that people are being made to pay for what is actually...

On June 19th, 2022, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a fragment of the story by “Channel One” of Russia, which concerns the net worth of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to the author of the post, Zelensky was “an ordinary poor school teacher”, and after coming to power, he became a billionaire. In...

On November 22nd, 2022, Levan Nikolaishvili, a pro-governmental expert, responded to the statement of the US ambassador to Georgia, Kelly Degnan. Degnan’s statement concerned the comments made by David Kramer, executive director of the George W. Bush Center, on the imposition of sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili. Nikoleishvili criticized Kelly Degnan for the comment where the...