During May 2-4th, both Russian (1, 2, 3) and Georgian (1, 2, 3, 4) social media users have been disseminating the information about the alleged capture of the Canadian General, Trevor Cadieu while fleeing from the Azovstal factory in Mariupol. According to sources, the General headed the bio laboratory in Ukraine, where he worked with...

The Story of a Georgian Troll who Gives Interviews Using a Picture of a Russian Social Media User Since the initiation of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, the West has imposed a number of sanctions to stop its aggression. However, the Georgian government decided against joining the sanctions. According to...

On April 30th, the former Georgian MP, Demur Giorkhelidze, published a post about the number of killed Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Giorkhelidze alleges that the total number of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine after February 24th is 1899, and he uses the BBC as the primary source. The post also mentions that a group of...

  Fagan Abbasov Fagan Abbasov is a second-year Public Administration MA student at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs and has earned a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Tbilisi State University. Fagan is the Marneuli municipality regional representative of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) and is actively cooperating with local...

After the imposition of sanctions over the mineral water company “Borjomi” over its holder – the Russian “Alpha Group” and its founder, Mikhail Fridman, opposition discrediting and anti-liberal Facebook accounts have started disseminating the information that the company was sold to Russians by Mamuka Khazaradze, the leader of the opposition party “Lelo.” The information was...

On April 27th, 2022, Nana Devdariani, the member of the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia party, spoke about the bunker of the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, Ukraine, and stated that even though the corridor is open since April 25th, evacuation still does not happen. Nana Devdariani, Alliance of Patriots: “This corridor has been open since...

On April 23rd, Georgian and Russian-language social media users (1, 2, 3) reported that Oleksandra, the daughter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had fled to Poland, calling her father a Nazi and a murderer of the Ukrainian nation. Attached to the posts is a photo of a young woman sitting in a car and crying....

Russian-language media outlets (Riafan.ru, Planeta RTR) and social media users (Dmitry Gromkov, Галина Любимова, Bella Shogenova) have been actively disseminating a video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, claiming that the President was under the influence of drugs while the trace and packaging of cocaine could still be seen in the video. According to Riafan.ru, traces...

On April 21st, 2022, the Facebook account “Александр Ладной” published a video, allegedly showing how the local population in Georgia violently dispersed a rally in support of Ukraine. The video itself is accompanied by a caption, according to which “the Conservatives dispersed a rally in support of Ukraine.” Identical video was disseminated in the Russian-language...

A video featuring the President of Ukraine, Volodymir Zelenskyy, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been disseminated on Russian (chelindustry.ru, livejournal.com, chelyabinsk.bezformata.com, prochelyabinsk.ru, Мария Бойко, Vadim Gusakov) and Georgian (Faika Nacvlishvili, FB groups – Coronamafia and Georgia as an Experimental Country, Corona Mafia) social networks and Internet platforms. The video shows Zelensky’s desk with papers,...

Disclaimer: The article features sensitive content On April 20th, the Facebook user “Рина Райская” shared an article of Pravda.ru in the group “Russian Canada-Русская Канада.” The article claimed the corpses found in Bucha in Ukraine have become a lucrative business and are used as a tourist attraction, which is why they were not buried in...

On April 15th, 2022, the Facebook user “Malkhaz Khabazi” published a post claiming that in the Ukrainian city of Berdyansk, Ukrainian fighters misappropriated the humanitarian aid sent from Georgia and sold it to the local population. The post is accompanied by the footage from the video of the Kremlin propaganda channel Russia Today, which allegedly...