Tamar runs media literacy programs for youngsters and teachers. She is a member of Deutsche Welle Akademie Media and Information Literacy Experts Network (MILEN) and the UNESCO MIL Alliance nomination committee.
Tamar is an author and co-author of numerous research papers and publications on Russian information warfare in Ukraine, Anti-Gender and Anti-LGBTQI Mobilization in Georgia, Infodemic, anti-Western propaganda, Kremlin Influence Index, media literacy and media self-regulation.
Prior to joining MDF, she served as a deputy secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia in 2010-2013. She was responsible for civil integration policy development. Previously, Kintsurashvili was the first elected general director of the Georgian Public Broadcaster (2005-2009) and deputy director of the CSO Liberty Institute (2002-2005).
Tamar Kintsurashvili is associate professor at Ilia State University. She received an MSc in policy studies from Edinburgh University and MA in journalism from Tbilisi State University.
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On 1 February, Alt-Info, an ultranationalist platform which also began television broadcasting on 8 January, interviewed Russian ultranationalist philosopher and founder of the Eurasia Movement
The pro-Russian Alliance of Patriots party has joined Georgia’s major opposition parties in boycotting the new Parliament and demanding repeat elections. However, four MPs
Media outlets reported a couple of days ago that Russian journalist Maxim Shevchenko arrived in Georgia. It emerges from Shevchenko’s video blog that he arrived in Georgia
The fifth annual report on anti-western propaganda reflects the results of media monitoring and fake news debunking in 2019. The monitoring report, which traditionally focuses
In its policy documents, the Georgian government recognizes Russian propaganda as a threat facing the country. To fight disinformation, strategic communications services are now operating
For economic gains, clickbait sites try to lure audience with clickbait titles and visual effects. Their motivation can be explained by the very interest to
As the importance of Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research, popularly known as Lugar Lab, increases in the fight against COVID-19, the pro-Kremlin media,
The appearance of Russian State Duma MP from the Communist Party, Sergei Gavrilov in the Georgian Parliament Speaker’s seat during the session of the Inter-parliamentary
August 7, 2018 marks ten years after Russia’s military intervention in Georgia in 2008. The Kremlin propaganda is part of the military intervention as well as the hybrid warfare manifested in Ukraine and other countries following the occupation of 20% of Georgian
This report is the analysis of the results of a-year-long monitoring conducted by the Media Development Foundation (MDF) throughout 2017. The monitoring aimed at studying the typology of anti-Western messages and fake news in the Georgian media. The subjects of monitoring were media outlets as well as other sources – politicians, clergy, civil organizations and representatives of society.
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