One year has passed since the violent actions of July 5, 2021, led against the “March of Dignity” planned within the Tbilisi Pride Week. In order to disperse the rally, violent groups held a counter-demonstration on Rustaveli Avenue, raiding the offices of civil activists organization “Shame Movement” and “Tbilisi Pride”, as well as the opposition...

On July 4, Russian Channel One’ aired a story (1,2,3,) about the alleged demands for an investigation into the activities of the American laboratories in the territory of Georgia, in particular, the Richard Lugar Laboratory of Tbilisi. The story talks about various “dangerous experiments” being conducted in the Lugar laboratory and in the “American laboratories”...

On June 29th, the Facebook page “Global Politics” published a photo of Kelly Degnan with the following caption: “What did Kelly mean by moving through quickly?” A description is attached to the photo, according to which “moving quickly” means the opening of a second front and the involvement of Georgia in the war with Russia....

On June 20, 2022, three years after the infamous “Gavrilov Night”, hundred of thousands of Georgians gathered at Rustaveli Ave to once again stress the commitment of the Georgian people to the “Western values.” Organized by the ‘Shame Movement, the rally named “Home to Europe’ aimed at showing the European aspirations of the Georgian people...

The pro-governmental Facebook page “Leader 41” published a post on social media, claiming that a German journalist protested the fact that the European Commission did not recommend granting Georgia EU candidate status. As an illustration of the protest, the post includes a photo of an anchor sitting in a studio against the backdrop of the...

On June 14th, 2022, during the Alt-Info program “Commentary of the Day”, Alexandre Palavandishvili spoke about the June 9th resolution of the European Parliament and Georgia-EU relations, noting that the Georgian Dream only deviated from the Western course when it refused to open a second front and hold an LGBT parade in the country. Palavandishvili...

On June 8th, 2022, the European Parliament adopted a joint resolution on violations of media freedom and the safety of journalists in Georgia, expressing concern about the deteriorating media situation and the safety of journalists in the country in recent years. The resolution condemns cases of intimidation, threats and violence against journalists and calls on...

On June 9th, 2022, the Facebook page ‘newsagency.ge’ published a post stating that MEP Marketa Gregorova considers Megis Kardava, Davit Kezerashvili and Kokhta Kodua as political refugees and believes that this issue should have been reflected in the EU resolution. Similar information was disseminated by the pro-governmental expert Davit Kartvelishvili, who wrote on Facebook that...

On June 7th, lawyer Irakli Zakareishvili published a post on his Facebook page, stating that the restoration of the Georgian independence in 1991 was carried out on the basis of the Independence Act of May 26th, 1918, the sixth paragraph of which states that Georgia is a neutral state, hence, integration into international military blocs,...

On May 31st, 2022, the Facebook user “Fantina Georgian” published a photo allegedly depicting Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, wearing an attire inspired by cartoon characters. The photo disseminated on social media is altered and disseminated with a false description. Instead of Trudeau, the authentic version of the image features an unknown person....

On May 25th, the Facebook profile “Anti-Liberal” published a video taken at a supermarket showing several cans with Polish inscriptions. According to the post’s description, in the supermarket “ATB” in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the humanitarian aid sent by Poland to Ukraine is being directly placed on the shelves. Identical information was disseminated by the Russian and...

On May 31st, Facebook user Светлана Иванова published a post stating that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine had officially acknowledged that Ukrainian ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova had lied about the mass rape in Ukraine during the war. Attached to the post is a screenshot of a post by Ukrainian Rada MP Pavlo Frolov highlighting the part...