On October 19, 2017, a member of the Alliance of Patriots, Vaja Otarashvili made a xenophobic statement against the individuals with Asian identity on air at TV Obiektivi, by saying that they change their names and surnames with Georgian ones on the basis of residence permit. As the representative of the Alliance of Patriots evaluates,...
October 23, 2017, an online edition Tbilisi 24 released an article headlined “The Truth about Vaccines,” involving conspiracy theories about vaccination. The author of the article claims that vaccines cause increased child mortality and autism, noting that child mortality rates are lower in those countries, where vaccination is not mandatory. The author spreads conspiracies in...
On October 17, 2017, Facebook news page «Politicano» uploaded a video accompanied with a text message, which discusses the opening of Tbilisi metro during the Soviet government and the merits of the soviet government in the realisation of the project. In the editorial note, it is also mentioned that while the Soviet Union was building...
On October 28, Levan Khidisheli, who is affiliated with the Georgian March movement, posted on his Facebook page a photo depicting a man, who as he claimed, was a Georgian citizen beaten to death just for stealing a jacket in Turkey. The post was accompanied by Turkophobic calls with a hashtag “Turkey is our enemy.”...
