On November 23rd, 2021, Alt-Info TV host Shota Martinenko asserted that integration into the Council of Europe and the European Union would result in the disappearance of national identity. The host added that, in contrast, the Soviet Union could not actually intervene in such aspects of sovereignty. Martinenko’s statement is manipulative. The European Union and the Council...

On December 1st, 2021, Facebook user Natia Colussi published a post concerning the digital identification card (ID), claiming that the eID will combine all types of cards, including health certificates and banking. Colussi further claimed that various online platforms such as YouTube, Twitter and Google will be linked to the so-called eID so that a person can...

On November 30th, the online outlet for.ge published an article entitled “Condoleezza Rice’s memoirs state that Saakashvili intended to flee, but Sarkozy changed his mind.” The article noted that Mikheil Saakashvili recalled several details from the 2008 war, most of them concerning the issue of the president allegedly leaving Georgia. According to Saakashvili, there were threats from...

On November 26th, the website “tvalsazrisi.ge” published Irakli Jankarashvili’s article with the headline “No one at the U.S. Embassy was outraged by torture in prisons, media terror and the merciless dispersal of peaceful demonstrators.” According to Jankarashvili, during the UNM era, the U.S. Embassy has not expressed frustration or concern over issues like the events of November...

Messages against the North Atlantic Alliance in pro-Kremlin publications have intensified ahead of the NATO Ministerial in Riga. To incite scepticism about NATO, pro-Russian actors disseminated a quote from the American political scientist from a 2016 interview with Voice of America (VOA) in a coordinated manner. Instead of Russia, Mearsheimer considers China and as a priority for...

On November 28th, the website tvalsazrisi.ge published an article entitled “John Bolton calls for the U.S. for freezing low-intensity conflicts such as in Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.” The author of the article, Irakli Jankarashvili, notes that in the opinion of the U.S. National Security Advisor in 2018-2019, the U.S. should respond to Russia’s macro-strategic policy in...

After the deterioration of the health of the imprisoned third president of Georgia, the Ombudsman and her group of experts assessed the health condition of Saakashvili as critical. They recommended his treatment in the intensive care unit of the multi-unit hospital. The statements voiced by the Ombudsman resulted in the emergence of anti-opposition pages and government trolls,...

On November 27th, the Facebook page “Leader 41” published an edited photo of Mikheil Saakashvili, on which he is wrapped in a white robe. The image is accompanied by a description stating that Saakashvili’s doctor at the Gori Military Hospital, Nino Gogorishvili, said Saakashvili was imitating a courtroom session, calling on the judge to be fair, and...

On November 22nd, the Facebook user Tedo Abashidze published a screenshot of the online publication On.ge. The screenshot that is accompanied by the logo of ON.ge shows a photo of the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Garibashvili, with the Soviet Union flag in the background. The following headline accompanies the post: “Labor Police will be set up...

On November 23rd, 2021, the online outlet publishers.ge published an article claiming that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, appointed Mikheil Saakashvili as Prime Minister. publishers.ge notes that the news has also been reported by the Ukrainian media. The article of publishers.ge does not contain any additional information about the alleged appointment of Mikheil Saakashvili as the...

On November 20th, the Georgian version of the pro-Kremlin “News Front” and the pro-governmental “Spacenews.io” published a Facebook post by the founder of the Caucasus Center for Islamic Studies,Shota Apkhaidze. Apkhaidze claims that the Public Defender and Formula TV received 580,000 EUR from the Armenian organization Patterson Belknap, the French Kagan Foundation and the Russian...

On November 18th, the Facebook user “Minda Davrche Adamianad” [I want to remain human] published a post depicting Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, getting vaccinated against Covid-19. The post alleges that Newsom has not appeared in public since receiving the vaccine, as his facial nerves became paralyzed after receiving the jab. The post asserts that the...