On January 18th, 2022, Giorgi Kardava, one of the leaders of the Conservative Movement, spoke about the Public Ombudsman and the State Inspector’s Offices in Alt-Info’s program “Alternative Vision”. Kardava noted that these institutions are not subject to state regulation and, hence, represent tools in the hands of external actors, which contradicts the rule of...

On January 17th, during the talk show “Studio 8” on Obieqtivi TV, Guram Nikoleishvili, a member of the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia, spoke about the alleged international conference organized by the McCain Institute in Tbilisi in 1996. Nikoleishvili noted that the conference, similar to one in 2019, was attended by the former senior U.S....

On January 13th, during the talk show ‘Alternative Vision,’ Giorgi Kardava, a member of the newly-created ‘Conservative Movement,’ spoke about a recently released report by Human Rights Watch. The report stressed that in 2021, Georgia experienced a setback in the field of human rights, noting that the events of July 5th demonstrate the inability of...

On January 12th, the Tbilisi City Court heard the controversial money laundering case against the founders of TBC Bank – Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze. The court found Khazaradze and Japaridze guilty of fraud; however, they were not put to jail since the statute of limitations were passed by the time of the ruling. During...

On January 17th, the Facebook page of the Resonance newspaper – ‘Resonancenews’ published two photos depicting a car accident. According to the description, the accident took place on the Kutaisi-Batumi highway, and the footage was available on the publication’s website. The information mentioned can no longer be found on the indicated link. Footage of the...

On January 17th, a photo of Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the Georgian Dream, was published in the name of Shalva Kutchashvili, the founder of the Tsinvla movement. The picture was accompanied by the following text: “We must evict the IDPs from Tbilisi soon.” The description of the post quotes that after 30 years, Georgia...

On January 10th, 2022, the Facebook page ‘Politicano’ published a post concerning the statement of the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, about NATO and Russia. The post claimed that Blinken said NATO had never invaded anywhere against the will of the people. The next part of the post, however, concerns the Kosovo crisis, describing...

After the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance responded clearly and unanimously to Russia’s ultimatum, stressing that NATO would notreconsider its open-door policy towards the former Soviet republics, pro-Kremlin actors on Georgian social networks started to resurface the topic of Article 5 of NATO concerning collective defense.  “We should invite Georgia and Ukraine to NATO without their occupied...

On January 11, a Facebook profile, ‘Patriot Georgian’ posted a low-quality photo depicting an unidentified man wearing a dress. According to the post’s author, the man in the picture is Zuka Berdzenishvili, a member of the civil movement “Shame”. The man in the photo is not Zuka Berdzenishvili but Marcos Flores, wearing his girlfriend’s attire....

On January 4th, 2022, during their visit to Alt-Info’s program “Alternative Vision,” members of the newly-created ‘Conservative Movement,’ Zurab Makharadze, Giorgi Kardava and Irakli Martinenko, spoke about the U.S. financial assistance to Georgia. On January 5th, an excerpt from the program, which directly concerned the U.S. aid was shared on the Facebook page of Alt-Info, as well...

On January 8th, 2022, the Facebook page ‘Conservative’ published a fragment of the documentary about the 30th anniversary of Georgia-US diplomatic relations prepared by the Voice of America. The fragment concerns the US attitude towards the first president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia and features a statement by the 41st President of the United States, George W. Bush, about the...

On January 10th, 2022, the Facebook account “Political Satire” published the following quote in the name of Mamuka Khazaradze, the leader of the “Lelo – for Georgia” party: “All this happens by the instructions of Vladimir Putin, he doesn’t need me free, because like Misha [Saakashvili], I am the guarantee of the independence of this...