On October 18, 2018, during the final session of the club Valdai, held annually in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin talked about the conspiracies about
On October 4, 2018, TV Obieqtivi aired a story about the briefing held by the head of the Russian military’s radiation, chemical and biological protections troops, Igor Kirillov. The briefing was focused on Lugar Laboratory in Tbilisi. According to Kirilov, the medication called “Sovaldi” was tested on Georgians in Lugar Laboratory. He claims that Sovaldi is produced by the former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s company Gilead.
On October 9, 2018, during debates between the 2018 Presidential Election candidates on the Public Broadcaster of Georgia, a presidential candidate from a political union Free Georgia, Kakha Kukava, stated that the Ministry of Education of Georgia had already licensed and authorized the teaching of Arabic language in the first grade.
On October 12, Rustavi 2 TV’s news program Kurieri (Courier) aired a statement made by the ruling party-endorsed presidential candidate, Salome Zourabichvili, who said during
On October 10, a web portal Georgia and World (Geworld) released an article titled “Migrant raped a goat in Bulgaria.” The web portal refers to Russian news agency ФАН as its original source. The latter, in turn, refers to Bulgarian tabloid Уикенд. Geworld describes how Mladan Kirilov, a 73-year-old shepherd, came across “a dark skinned” migrant, who raped his goat, Milena. The shepherd resisted the attacker and the latter ran away, “shouting something in Arabic.”
On October 4, a reportage was aired on TV Obiektivi’s news program, mentioning that tourists allegedly inflict serious financial damage on Georgian medical facilities. Without revealing any statistical data, journalist concluded that the tourists account for thousands of GEL in debt, as “tourists often refuse to pay treatment costs”.
In an October 1-7 edition of Asaval-Dasavali, a journalist, Zaza Davita writes that Belarus is a model country, as it managed to maintain friendly relations with Russia while establishing partner relations with Europe. Asaval-Dasavali also claims that Europe has accused Belarus of violating human rights less often than Georgia.
On October 4, mystar.ge released an article authored by Irakli Miladze, according to which it is planned to bring 500 000 migrants to Georgia before the
Dimitri Lortkipanidze, director of the Primakov Georgian-Russian Public Center, said in the interview with online portal, Georgia and World on October 4 that the current pace of population outflow from Georgia was allegedly linked to visa liberalisation with the European Union.
On October 3, an ultra-nationalist movement National Force wrote on its Facebook page that it is planned to bring 500 000 migrants to Georgia before the end of 2020 and that the government and the opposition (the National Movement and European Georgia) have given their consent to it.
On September 29, a Politicano Facebook page, based on an article by a Russian edition Lenta.ru, published a piece saying that allegedly, a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist party and movement «Правий сектор» broke into one of the Orthodox churches in Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine, stormed it and physically abused the believers. Politicano refers to the Ukrainian political party and movement «Правий сектор» as a terrorist organization, whose activity, they claim, is not restricted by the Government of Ukraine.
In the interview with Obieqtivi TV on September 24, 2018, Archpriest Giorgi Pavlov raised the issue of granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, saying that the process is being ruled by the United States. To confirm his words, Giorgi Pavlov recollected the arrival of two exarchs in Ukraine,
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