On August 24th, 2022, Georgian-language Facebook users published a post claiming that one of the treaties of the Russian-Turkish war contains a secret clause that if Crimea is not Russian, it will automatically belong to Turkey. The mentioned post was accompanied by the statement of Turkish President Erdogan that the return of Crimea to Ukraine...

On August 22nd, Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2, 3) circulated a video depicting the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden. The video allegedly shows Biden falling asleep during an interview, while the host urges him to wake up. In addition, the video is accompanied by the sound of snoring. The video disseminated...

On August 28th, 2022, Georgian-language online platforms published information about the murder of Natalia Vovk, the suspect in the murder of Alexander Dugin’s daughter, Daria Dugina (1,2,3). According to the articles, Vovk was found dead in the rented apartment; she received 17 wounds and was holding a letter. Identical information was initially published by the...

On August 24th, a photo of a document, which allegedly contains information about the losses of the Ukrainian army, was disseminated among Georgian and Russian-language social media users ​ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). The distributed document has the form of an official letter; its addressee is Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,...

Shortly after the death of Daria Dugina, the daughter of the founder of the Eurasianist movement and far-right philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, pro-Russian actors on social networks began to spread fragments of Dugin’s 2019 interview. The videos were shared mainly by the pro-Kremlin party “Conservative Movement” and their supporters (1, 2), as well as by Levan...

On August 21-22nd, the Georgian-speaking Facebook accounts (1, 2) published a German-language video in which different parts of the human body are placed on counters and refrigerators. The video also shows a menu listing the choice of meat for human body parts. The authors of the posts claim that German television broadcasts footage of the...

On August 17th, Ermile Nemsadze, one of the founders of the far-right “Georgian March,” noted that after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, around 4 million Ukrainians moved to Russia as refugees, which, can be used as proof to argue that the current conflict does not have ethnic roots and Ukrainians do not consider Russia as a...

On August 22nd, a Georgian-language article claiming that Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Kremlin’s propaganda media Russia Today, was stripped of her nationality by the Patriarch of Armenia and her portrait was thrown into the river Araks went viral on Facebook. (1,2). The article mentions that Karekin II prohibited Simonyan from addressing God in...

On August 21st, 2022, a screenshot of an article by the Russian state-controlled publication RIA Novosti was shared on Facebook (1,2). The screenshot alleged that according to the preliminary version of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the murder of Daria Dugina was planned by the State Security Service of Georgia. The screenshots...

On August 14th, 2022, a Georgian-language Facebook user published a video of former American President Barack Obama with the following title: “Obama: It’s a good thing we have a lot of Elton Johns in the military.” The fragment of the video has a Russian voiceover in which Barack Obama is asked if he knows that...

On August 17th, 2022,  an excerpt of the “Alt-Info program of August 13th was published in the Altinfo-TV Facebook group. The guest of the program, Paata Abuladze, asserted that the Georgian side was offered a loan of 65 million from the West in exchange for receiving 18 thousand refugees from Afghanistan, but the Prime Minister...

Update: On August 11th, the government of Estonia decided to suspend issuing Estonian visas to Russian tourists. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, Urmas Reinsalu, stressed that in the recent period, Russian citizens have been passing through Estonia or coming to the territory of Estonia en masse, which was not in line with the...