On October 26th, 2022, Georgian language Facebook users (1, 2) shared a screenshot of an “Alt-Info” post about the cutoff of natural gas to Armenia by “Gazprom” with the caption – “The result of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Armenia.” On October 27th, another Facebook user shared the same screenshot and linked the fact of the...

On October 19, 2022, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, approved a new list of sanctions, which includes relatives and friends of the founder of Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the incumbent “Georgian Dream” party. According to the presidential decree, among those sanctioned are Bidzina Ivanishvili’s brother – Aleksandre Ivanishvili; Bidzina Ivanishvili’s cousin – Ucha...

On 26 October 2022, Georgian Facebook users (1, 2) shared a video of a man dancing at a beach party, claiming it was the new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.  The video used in the post aims to mislead the audience.  The man shown in the video is not Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, but rather...

On October 27th, 2022, Georgian and Russian-language (1,2) Facebook accounts have been disseminating a “Euronews” story, according to which an auction of Russian works of art will be held in Germany in support of Ukraine, and the sold exhibits will be destroyed. Information about the auction, without the story of Euronews, was covered by the...

On October 23rd, the pro-Kremlin online media outlet “Georgia and World” published an article, featuring a number of alleged quotes by British and American politicians and public figures. As “Georgia and World” notes, the article is based on the statements of the Russian political scientist Sergey Mikheev, made on the air of “Radio Vesti.” The...

On October 24-25th, Georgian-speaking Facebook users (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) published a video of Joe Biden with the logo of the pro-Kremlin “Alt-Info TV.” The same video without Alt-Info’s logo was also distributed on the Facebook page with the caption “World Politics” (1, 2). The video is dubbed in Georgian, making it...

In October 2022, Russian and Georgian-language Facebook users have been disseminating information about the book “Моя боротьба” [My fight] allegedly authored by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The posts were accompanied by photos of the book cover. The authors of the posts appeal to the fact that “My fight” was translated from Ukrainian to...

On October 19-20th, Georgian- (1,2,3,4) and Russian-speaking Facebook users shared a video of one of the French programs. The video shows the results of the poll on the question “Escalation of tension with Putin: should France continue to arm Ukraine?”. The positive response rate to the question is 23.3%, and the negative response rate is...

On October 18th, 2022, during a daytime program of the pro-Kremlin “Sezoni TV,” the host Nikoloz Mzhavanadze discussed the Russia-Ukraine war with guests Tristan Tsitelashvili and Vazha Otarashvili. According to one of the guest speakers, since September, the Ukrainian side has launched a counterattack in two directions, Kharkiv and Kherson, claiming that the counterattack in...

On October 17-18th, Georgian (1, 2) and Russian-language Facebook accounts published a video showing a man dressed in a Ukrainian military uniform. In one shot, the video shows the man moving in the forest and then kneeling and hitting his head with his hands, being filmed with a video camera. From the descriptions of the...

On October 17th, Kremlin media, including Pravda and Общественная служба новостей, reported that one of the Israeli TV channels, INN, created an animation about a Ukrainian pig. Pravda’s article is accompanied by an animated video published on Telegram. The animation was also shared by Russian-language (1,2,3,4,5) and Georgian-language (1,2) Facebook accounts. The video was also...

On October 15th, 222, the Facebook page of the pro-Kremlin political party “Conservative Movement” published an October 14th story from the Kremlin TV channel ЦАРЬГРАД that concerned the visit of the leaders of the “Conservative Movement” to Russia. The story claimed that Western propaganda in Georgia paints a completely different image of Russia and presents...