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,...

On December 12, 2020, a Facebook user Nona Bakuradze published a post about alleged financial connections between several international companies, George Soros, and Bill Gates. The author claimed that a Wuhan-based pharmaceutical company is owned by Glaxo, which is also the owner of Pfizer. Both companies are managed by BlackRock, a George Soros-owned company. The author also...

On December 10, 2020, News Front, an online media outlet, published an article titled “Russia is our enemy?! – we had been 800,000 before the Treaty of Georgievsk and 5 million in 1991.” News Front refers to Dato Tskipurishvili as the author of the article. The author claims that owing to Russia, the population of Georgia grew...

Lately, Georgian online media spread information about the side effects of Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccines. On the 14th of December, a number of media outlets wrote about developed Bell’s Palsy cases in people participating in Pfizer’s vaccine testing. Some of the sources were “რეზონანსი,” Digest.pia, and News-front articles, which said that 4 participants, enrolled in the...

On December 5, 2020, Facebook user Zviad Gogiashvili posted a video on his page, where he speaks about COVID-19 and questions its origin, diagnosis and vaccines. He claims that PCR tests fail to detect the virus, while autopsies cannot reveal any trace of COVID-19 in human bodies; moreover, nobody but Chinese scientists has ever seen the coronavirus...

On December 7, Tvalsazrisi.ge published an article with the title “Father Kleomenis: “Let’s resist chipping and New World Order – Antichrist’s plans 666! Be cautious and attentive!!!”. The article is the translation of Greek Father Kleomenis’s video address, where he speaks about universal compulsory vaccination against coronavirus with nanochip and Luciferin and altering DNA with the said...

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...

On November 29, Facebook profile ბიბლიის მორწმუნე ქრისტიანები (Bible Believing Christians) published a lengthy post, noting that the pandemic was planned intentionally and that this claim is supported by relevant evidence. To back up this opinion, the author provides various arguments, among others a documentary “Plandemic.” The post reads that the Plandemic has exposed a COVID-19 “criminal...

On November 30, head of the “Rights Defenders’ Union” organization Nikoloz Mzhavanadze published a video on his Facebook account with the following description: “Azerbaijan dreams of completely conquering Georgia and publishes a scandalous video clip on social network”. Mzhavanadze also notes that for some agents of SOCAR, it’d be credible only if Russians produced the identical video...

On December 2, Facebook user Lasha Modebadze, apparently a fake account, published a post about the Zika virus, claiming that the Rockefeller-owned ATCC, the global biological materials resource and standards organization, sells human organs and viruses, including Zika virus through the Internet. This latter, as the author claims, has been created artificially and its patent is owned...

On December 1, Facebook user Lasha Modebadze published a post about the Tbilisi-based Lugar Lab. The Facebook profile hiding its identity claims that as part of the Hepatitis C Elimination Program, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) instructed Georgia to test medications and collect population’s genetic material in a biobank. According to the post,...

On December 3, 2020, Facebook page სინანული გადაგვარჩენს (Repentance will save us) and anti-vaccination activist Shore Shanidze published identical posts, as they claimed, about a scandalous statement made by American scientist, Robert Garry. According to the post, in his statement dated December 1, 2020, Robert Garry notes that 5G high-frequency towers were installed to control humans implanted with microchips,...