On May 24th, Russian Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin reported on his official Telegram channel that only 15% of the USD 40 billion in US aid to Ukraine would be spent directly on Ukraine. Volodin notes that 35% of the money goes to funding the US military, 45.2% will be spent on “other countries”, and 4.8%...

On May 30th, the Facebook page “Alternative Analytics” published an excerpt from an Alto-Info’s program, in which Shota Martinenko, one of the founders of the Conservative Movement, spoke about Georgia’s integration into Europe, saying that Georgia’s geographical component is a significant obstacle in this regard, while one of the essential components for Euro-integration is giving...

Following the Russian invasion in the territories of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the launch of full-scale military intervention, a number of disinformation related to the war has been disseminated in the Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian social and traditional media. As part of Facebook’s third-party fact-checking program, Myth Detector has joined Meta’s efforts...

On May 26th, 2022, the Facebook user ‘Fantina Georgian’ published a video with the following description: “The government of Bulgaria and its people have deported more than 35,000 Ukrainian refugees in recent weeks.” The video shows a small group of people standing on the street with luggage. The video was also shared by Russian-speaking Facebook...

On May 24th, Russian propaganda platforms (Правда, RT на русском), აRussian-language Facebook group  (Вежливые люди) and individual Georgian and Russian Facebook users (Nutsa javelidze Fantina Georgian, Serg Bard) disseminated identical information that due to the insufficient amount of weapons, Ukraine’s 115th Brigade refused to fight for Sievierodonetsk and decided to leave the battlefield. According to...

On May 16th, the Tbilisi City Court convicted Nika Gvaramia, General Director of the Mtavari Arkhi, of causing damage to Rustavi 2 and sentenced him to 3.5 years in prison. While Gvaramia’s arrest was harshly criticized by the media, and local and international NGOs, a campaign aimed to discredit Gvariamia and the journalists of the...

On May 18, the Facebook profile “Taliban Conservative” posted a video of the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, Kelly Degnan, dubbed in the Georgian language. According to the description, Degnan directly says that a second front should be opened in Georgia. In the video, Degnan notes the following: “… to ensure that the military is as...

On May 11th, Russian-language media outlets (rg.ru, Ukriana.ru, regnum.ru, crimea.ria.ru) published an article stating that the U.S. wants to orchestrate Holodomor in Ukraine. The information is based on the comment of the Speaker of the Russian Parliament – Vyacheslav Volodin. Volodin responded to Joe Biden’s May 10th speech, in which the U.S. President noted that...

Since May 15th, Georgian and Russian-language Facebook pages have been claiming that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared the presidents of Russia and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, to an old gay couple. The caption to Johnson’s photo, published in Russian (1,2,3,4,5,6) reads: “All Putin and Lukashenko’s efforts to restore the Soviet Union are like...

On May 3rd, the Facebook account “William William” posted a video accompanied by the caption “Who Really Rules Georgia?! Excerpt from Davit Tordia’s video.” The video itself concerns George Soros. According to Tordia, George Soros is the creator of the classic “devilish carousel” in Georgia, the main “Satanist and the number one Jehovah’s Witness in...

On May 1st, 2022, the Facebook page of “Sezoni TV” aired an excerpt from the interview with Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, the chairman of the Union of Human Rights Defenders. Mzhavanadze claimed that Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Moscow on his first visit during the 2008 war and asked Putin for permission to seize Adjara. The post...

On May 5th, 2022, The Facebook page of the ‘Free Channel’ posted a comment of Alexander Vinikov, the new head of the NATO Liaison Office in Georgia. The quote alleged that Vinikov said “Georgia will not be accepted into NATO, although the country’s aspirations will definitely be reflected in the final document.” The video published...