On April 23 and 24, a cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was circulated on Russian-language Facebook accounts  (1, 2, 3, 4). The caricature shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Pope Francis inside the Vatican Bank. The image includes a caption: “It’s me, Pope Francis. Please transfer all my money to Ukraine.” The...

Between April 20 and 24, media outlets reported that China had launched 10G internet for the first time. According to the information provided in the articles, the new network’s download speed reaches 9,834 megabits per second, while the upload speed is 1,008 megabits per second, with a stable latency of just three microseconds. This information...

On April 21-22, the Facebook page “World News” shared a video claiming to show a Ukrainian military commissariat officer threatening a civilian accompanied by a child with a firearm because he refused to go to war. At the beginning of the uploaded video, two men are seen outside on a street or in a yard...

On April 22, an audio recording was spread on Facebook, accompanied by photos of members of the For Georgia party, Ana Buchukuri and Natia Mezvrishvili. According to the spreader’s claim, the recording contains the voices of Buchukuri and Mezvrishvili arguing. The same video was also shared in the Facebook group “Anti-Maidan! The Voice of the...

On April 18, a video of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, dubbed in Russian, circulated on Facebook, according to which Pashinyan threatened Ukraine and Russia with the annexation of Crimea to Armenia. Pashinyan: “Brother archaeologists still find Armenian traces in the Sevastopol region. In ancient Armenian, it’s written there: ‘Aram was here, he swung a...

Between April 15 and 21, the director of the Caucasus Islamic Research Center, Shota Apkhaidze, published posts about the employment of ethnic minorities in the British police. According to Apkhaidze, “White Britons are no longer being hired in law enforcement,” and the majority of employees in the country’s law enforcement agencies and special forces are...