During Alt-Info TV program “Alt-Interview” on June 16, Tatia Gabritchidze, the host of the program, and her guest, Georgian cleric Giorgi Vashalomidze, spoke about recent developments around the Georgian Orthodox Church-run Ninotsminda orphanage. The program host noted that compulsory religious education is regulated well in the schools of European countries and that teaching dominant religion...

Nino Ratishvili, host of Obieqtivi TV’s Night Studio program, said on June 19 that a vaccinated mother was not allowed to transfuse her blood to her child. Ratishvili noted that Georgia received this directive from the Red Cross who states it is better if unvaccinated people donate blood. Earlier on June 17, identical information was...

On June 13, 2021, Facebook user Nino Asatiani shared a photo on her account taken during the G7 Summit, featuring U.K Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Queen Elizabeth II, President of European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen, and other officials. The author focuses on people in masks standing far from political leaders, considering it discrimination against...

Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria became the target of pro-Kremlin and antiliberal groups after Bishop Spiridon (Abuladze) of Skhalta refused to permit the Public Defender’s monitoring visit to the Orthodox Church-run Ninotsminda orphanage. Myth Detector has identified the actors involved in the campaign of discrediting the Public Defender on social and traditional media. In particular:...

On May 29, the Leader of Georgian March, Sandro Bregadze, stated on air at TV Obiektivi that the major part of funding, sent to Georgia, is used to finance anti-Georgian and anti-national NGOs, whose main fight vector is aimed at the Georgian Orthodox Church. Bregadze also claims that it would be nice, if these funds...

On June 5, pro-Kremlin media outlet News Front published an article claiming that Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria is involved in the network of pedophilia and child organ trafficking and just that is the reason behind her “hyperactive behavior” regarding the issues of minors. The same article notes that Lomjaria frequently meets with the Israeli...

On May 31, 2021, Giorgi Gigauri, an Asaval-Dasavali journalist published a post on his Facebook page claiming that the Ministry of Education and the UN Population Fund opened an Equality Corner in one of the village schools in Zugdidi Municipality. Gigauri claimed that the opening of the Equality Corner confirms that “gender identity” and “LGBT...

On May 22, TV “Alt-info”, associated with Levan Vasadze’s political movement “Unity, Essence, Hope – Nation”, aired an interview of Dimitri Lortkipanidze, head of the Primakov Georgian-Russian Public Center. Lortkipanidze speaks about Public Defender’s request to enter Ninotsminda Orphanage and claims that concordat grants the church the right to bar Public Defender from entering the...

On May 25, a Facebook user Nini Jgharkava disseminated a screenshot allegedly from the official Facebook page of Giorgi Gakharia, the former Prime Minister of Georgia, which said: “Bidzina Ivanishvili is building the hydroelectric power plant and they are demanding my arrest at the manifestations.” The screenshot of the official page of Giorgi Gakharia is...

A protest rally held in Tbilisi on May 23 against the construction of the Namakhvani Hydropower Plant in western Georgia’s Rioni Gorge has prompted fake pages to spread discrediting posts. Myth Detector has identified four active Facebook pages with three of them trying to discredit and make fun of the organizers of protests on May...

On May 11, 2021, Facebook user Ninu Nemsveridze Art uploaded a Russian-language video, which claims that global pandemic was planned back in the 20th century and its goal was to reduce the population. To prove its claims, the video provides the quote allegedly taken from the book “Verbatim” by Jacques Attali, who, according to the...

On May 14, Facebook page სოფელ უდეს მონასტრები (Monasteries of the Village Ude) shared monastrisnobati.ge article about Catholics celebrating Ascension Day on May 13 in village Buzmareti. The article titled “Annual Invasion of Parish from the Latin Church of Rome in the Orthodox Churches of Buzmareti” notes that for two years, law enforcement officers haven’t...