On March 9, Facebook user Mano Beridze published a post, according to which “70% of French healthcare workers do not trust and reject vaccination.” The author of the post called on Georgian doctors to follow the example of their French colleagues. Mano Beridze refers to Italian online edition Corriere as the source of information. Mano...

On March 8, 2021, Sputnik Georgia published an article by Arno Khidirbegishvili, editor of pro-Russian Sakinformi news agency, with the following headline – “Fake patriotism or Russophobia – why Georgia disregards Sputnik V.” The author of the article highlights the advantages of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, while slamming the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca. Khidirbegishvili also...

On September 8, 2016, an article by Iza Tamazashvili was published on Georgia and World website, in which she states: “Where was the West during the Great Patriotic War, when the United States and England were funding Hitler, whereas the Western countries were suffering under the domination of Fascist Germany? Was not it Stalin, who saved...

ALT-TV, a television of an ultranationalist platform Alt-Info, has been recently inviting many individuals who voice Kremlin’s ideology. Moreover, they even sponsor these TV interviews on social media. Between January 8, when ALT-TV started broadcasting, and today, a famous Russian journalist and a leader of Russia’s Left Front, Maksim Shevchenko, an ultranationalist and the founder...

  On February 12, Russian media outlet “Ria Novosti” aired footage of the map from Turkish private television and portrayed it as the state-owned channel. A map named “Turkish Sphere of Influence in 2050” was published by the U.S research center Stratfor and was discussed on the Turkish private television “TGRT HABER”. Besides “Ria Novosti”,...

On January 13, Nona Agdgomelashvili, a general practitioner, published a post sharing the statement spread by Tina Topuria, a Georgian homeopath. The latter calls on vaccine supporters to assume personal liability for its safety and demands the government to set up a foundation for the victims of vaccination. On her part, Nona Agdgomelashvili notes in...

On January 4, Facebook page ბიბლიის მორწმუნე ქრისტიანები (Bible Believing Christians) published a post, claiming that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax. It also provides Germany’s mortality figures for 2017-2020. According to the post, number of deaths for all causes is much lower in 2020 compared to the deaths reported in 2017-2019. The post is...

On January 7, Facebook user Eka ShetEkauri published a post in the public group “Let’s defeat the Coronavirus/COVID-19 together”, which, according to the author, presents Greek doctor Dimitri Antoniou’s statements about the COVID-19 vaccine. According to the post, a Greek doctor speaks about halting the coronavirus vaccine in his country and questions its safety. Particularly,...

A Facebook user Giorgi Giorgi shared a video in the group “ახალი მსოფლიო წესრიგი და კორონა აფიორა!” (New world order and corona fraud) on January 1, 2021. According to the caption of the video, a satanic ritual was carried out in Switzerland in 2016 while opening a railway tunnel – an event attended by various...

On December 17, 2020, Facebook account Lasha Modebadze, which apparently is a fake profile, published a post about Kutaisi International University funded by Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Cartu Foundation. According to the post, Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party, is building not the university, but a high-technology research center in Kutaisi with the key goal...

Each post-Soviet country looks at the Soviet past in a different way. Some choose the path of re-thinking, while others prefer to idealize it, as this way they do not have to leave their comfort zone or form a new identity. Re-thinking the Soviet past has never gone beyond non-governmental organizations and interested researchers. Therefore,...

Sometimes conspiracy theorists go to great lengths to sow distrust and confusion. They dig out ancient maps that show a different line of disputed borders; they find additional clauses in century-old contracts that question today’s political order; they doctor facts and decontextualize images. And sometimes they simply state that a neighbor country is buying all...