The following trends were identified in August:

• The main targets of xenophobic messages were Georgia’s neighboring countries – Azerbaijan, Armenia, and especially Turkey. Turkey was presented as a threat to Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, which could only be contained by Russia. At the same time, the authors of these messages described the protests against the arrival of a Russian cruise ship and the mass influx of Russian citizens as xenophobic.
• Following the announcement of a strategic partnership between Georgia and China, new messages emerged in August. This time, China, along with Russia, was presented as an alternative to the West. It was emphasized that, unlike the West, a traditional China would never cause Georgia to lose its identity. In addition, most anti-Western messages portrayed the USA and the European Union as proponents of war, coups, and depravity.
• Homophobic messages were also linked to the August tragedy in Shovi. The landslide in Racha was claimed to have occurred because of the “gay and lesbian orgies” that were “held” there. As in previous months, the USA and Europe were presented as promoters of LGBT propaganda and Russia as a defender of Orthodox traditions.
• Sexist hate speech was used against US Ambassador Kelly Degnan, ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili’s mother - Giuli Alasania, journalists, and female representatives of the civil sector.

In August, xenophobic messages presented all neighboring countries, except Russia, as occupiers. Turkey was named as a country hostile to Georgia. The opinion was disseminated that Russian troops should be brought into the region to curb Turkish expansion.

Giorgi Gakhokidze (Gigo Rioneli), prosaist: “Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as Turkey, also appropriated our lands. Does anyone remember this? We can only remember Russia; pointing at Russia has become a trend, or rather, it was turned into a trend. Here in Georgia, Azerbaijani and Armenian languages are taught in schools; should this be banned? There is an Italian school in Didube; a school for Ukrainians was opened in their native language… Legally, all nationalities have the right to open their own private school. By the way, there is a Georgian school in Russia, Italy, and the USA. … Could you name even a single Georgian of around one million Georgians living in Russia who works as a caregiver for an elderly person?”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “If you follow this logic, why do you not ask Azerbaijanis whether Gareji is occupied or not? Or our other neighbors, for example, Armenians and everyone else. They all have chinks of our territories, and the Russians are telling us that we should talk and they will return those territories if we talk.”

Dito Chubinidze, host of Sezoni TV: “The color of a Turk has crept into the white Batumi, a beautiful Georgian city, and it is losing the look and color of the national city. […] Unless Georgia has someone there that will make the 800-thousand-strong Turkish army not look in our direction, we will lose this territory.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, Sezoni TV presenter: “Georgian lands are sold to those Turks, and Georgian men are oppressed in Adjara, Georgian girls are being taken away, and many other terrible things are happening. How can you have a pleasant holiday in Adjara when you are woken up by a mullah, you can go to a Turkish restaurant alone, and there is nothing Georgian. A priest cannot walk down Kutaisi Street in his cassock. Is this Georgia?!”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “We should enter Adjara and deal with traitors of the country; cleanse it from Turkish special services; drag them out of houses.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “Only relations with Russia can save Adjara and Guria, and they cannot be saved without Russian troops. Today, Adjara is no longer Georgian; it was Georgian under Aslan Abashidze’s rule, but after him Adjara became Turkish. Villain Saakashvili gave citizenship to 30,000 Turks, saying that they were Laz people. Who will save it? Islamization is in progress. Today, the happiest ones are Turks because they are already prosperous.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “Adjara without Russians will be lost; Russian soldiers regained Ajara for us during the Russian-Turkish war. We were not able to get it back, but these ignorant people do not know history; they do not know anything at all, and today, I also say the same: we will not be able to maintain Adjara, Guria, Javakheti, and the whole of Georgia if we do not have relations with Russia.”

Eka Naskidashvili, journalist: “Today, Aghmashenebeli Street is called the Arab street. In a country where Arabs and Bangladeshis feel at home, own land, houses, and do business, Russians are said to be most dangerous.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “One thing you have to keep in mind is that as we are surrounded by Muslim countries - Turkey, the North Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Iran - all of them are hunting us. What do you think our prospects are?!”

In August, homophobic discourse was again largely related to the West, with the NGO sector, pro-opposition media, government opponents, and McDonald’s being portrayed as serving Western interests and promoting LGBT propaganda. Homophobic remarks were also made on the topic of tragedy in Shovi. 

The tragedy in Shovi happened because of homosexual perversions

Ukraine fights for LGBTQI+ values

Spiridon Tskipurishvili, Archpriest: “What is the war really being fought for? It is being fought for the establishment of an LGBT dictatorship and the legalization of sodomy. They held an LGBT pride or festival in Kharkiv during the war, and since they could not hold it under the sky, they held it in the underground, and they mark it every year in Kyiv even during the war.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “Mrs. Sarah is not a Mrs. but is a man, transgender Sarah Ashton-Cirillo. An American transgender person was appointed as a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Defense Forces; i.e., to inform the Western audience about the events in Ukraine, Ukraine appointed this transgender as a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Defense Forces. This is not a woman; you are mistaken; this is a man, a transgender.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “That’s who they [Ukraine] are pinning their hopes on - that this transgender woman, this Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, will put an end to Putin; she will perform a striptease.”

Dito Chubinidze, host of Sezoni TV: “It was established that the people who participated in the demonstrations on March 7-8 demonstrations, this so-called stoned and exalted generation, were customers of the so-called gay clubs and these filthy places for meetings and gathering, and were brought from there… After all, people, is this really a gay coup? This is what we lacked for complete happiness - a revolution by these gay propagandists.”

Dito Chubinidze, journalist of Asaval-Dasavali: “Coca-Cola seller Elton Chkonia, who recently turned into a gay activist, together with the so-called Chuta Tsereteli, is a genetic saboteur who has renounced his origin but cannot give up his filthy plan of enmity towards Georgia and corruption of minors!”

Other homophobic messages

Koka Morgoshia, Conservative Movement: “Let them [LGBT individuals] de-occupy their buttocks first, and then we will take care of our de-occupation ourselves.”

After the announcement of the strategic partnership between Georgia and China, China was presented as a “true friend” of Georgia, which will never force Georgians to change their identity. At the same time, the West, as in previous months, was described as a propagandist of sin and pedophilia, while Russia was described as a co-religious neighbor legislating against perversion. The U.S. and Europe were accused of interfering in Georgia’s internal affairs and acting against the country’s interests.

Dito Chubinidze, journalist: “I want a boy to grow up to be a man and a girl to grow up to be a woman; we hoped that the United States of America would support us, but for 30 years, our national values have been beaten with an American bat; they have done everything to make all the dirt that accumulated in the nation come to the surface; they want to hold gay prides… They are doing all this; they are inciting these gay agents against Georgia.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “In the end of the day, the United States of America, if they are allowed, will officially appoint a gay person, a man married to a man, as your president. This is the goal they are pursuing: to destroy this country. 

Vato Shakarashvili, Georgia First: “If, according to a liberal, so-called woke agenda, a man identifies himself as a woman and vice versa, then everyone around him should a priori agree with this. Today, we are dealing with a clear manifestation of this: someone identifies himself as a hero, and we are obligated to recognize him as such.”

Koka Morgoshia, Conservative Movement: “When you say that our generation cannot be corrupted, let me disagree with that: were not Chokhonelidze and Sokhadze corrupted? Chokhonelidze, as well as Sokhadze, have sided with the LGBT community.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “The EU flag is the biggest LGBT flag. It is a fact that today, the West propagandizes depravity.”

Russia protects us from LGBT propaganda

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “Russia is the only country, along with Belarus and Serbia, that defends Orthodox Christianity and has adopted a law against this depravity. So, I wonder and ask: when you say that we are going to Europe, does it mean that we should go to the pederasts?!”

Davit Mkheidze, author: “Georgia needs a strong defender, i.e., Russia, and not a pederastic ‘ally’ – the USA.”

Dito Chubinidze, journalist: “Glory to Gharibashvili that, thanks to him, Georgia has found a real friend! Indeed, 1.5 billion-strong China will never force Georgia to hold a parade of sodomite perverts and release from prison those murderers and criminals who, with the blessing of Americans, killed young fertile men on the streets.”

Nana Kakabadze, Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights: “The biggest political actor that unconditionally recognizes your territorial integrity and, at the same time, does not demand a change in the rule of your life - is it not logical for Georgia to be oriented towards China?”

Oleg Iadze, sportsman, founder of Georgian Dream: “The Chinese have never demanded from Georgians either sex change or same-sex marriage. I think that if Georgia has a government that will take care of its population and also create appropriate legislation to prevent anyone from gaining control over Georgians, we will then gain true friends and partners!”

Addresses of sexist hate speech in August included the US Ambassador, the mother of former President Mikheil Saakashvili, journalists, and female representatives of the civil sector who criticize the government.

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, Dito Chubinidze, hosts of Sezoni TV: “I want to urge this [Gia] Kharchilava: save Georgia and marry Kelly Degnan. Maybe that will talk some sense into her. 

Dito Chubinidze: Mr. Gia, if you marry Ms. Kelly, then you will please God, as Giovanni Boccaccio said, and it will be pleasant for both sides, and you will also find peace of mind, and we and others will also have some rest, and Georgia will survive. Because this woman is so agitated that I think she will burn Georgia before she leaves; maybe you will calm her down, and you will also calm down… Dear government, do something to shake up the situation; this Kharchilava is constantly drunk; marry this woman off to this drunkard, and believe me, the issue of revolution will be removed.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host: “In 90 percent of TV media, men are gays and women are lesbians, and that’s why they are waving this transgender flag. This Ms. Ia Parulava – I heard about fake orgasms, but this woman has gone over the top. What is it that you need so badly, Ms. Ia? You are not so bad that no one would look at you, and I cannot understand why you are so focused on sex all the time. Do you need it so badly?!  Is there no one to satisfy her?”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “I, for example, believe that a family that raises a Georgian child, the first task of a girl is to produce Georgians. We are a small nation.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “It is heartbreaking that Georgian women marry [foreigners] for the sake of their better future, a happy future, for the sake of money… If all Georgian women marry foreigners and go abroad, who will breed here? This is how you raise your children, and if this is how you raise your children, telling them to marry whoever they want – an American or an Italian - to be happy, then you are vagabonds; you are traitors to the nation.”

Dito Chubinidze, co-host of Sezoni TV: “Am I to believe that 700 Georgian women are in love with Turks and married them for love there? No, money, money [is the reason]. Georgian women did not live like that; had Georgian women been so obsessed with money, we would not have talked in Georgian today. It seems that everything has changed; it seems that our blood has been diluted with water; it seems that we have lost our morals and dignity, which we often talk about and boast about; we left them somewhere. Some of them were taken by others, and some of them were lost by ourselves, and this is how we have reached the present state.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, presenter: “When this lady, Giuli Alasania, enters there, it seems she enters to show [her clothes]. Like on a catwalk, she comes and goes in new clothes. Moreover, she dresses so tastelessly. She looks like mutton dressed as lamb.”

Slut-shaming

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “This [Irakli Absandze], who is financed and fed by the West, was kicked out of this Basiani in a dress, the dress was torn on him. This is what our media is like. He is looking for a man; Ia Parulava wants to be fucked; Nato Gogelia performs Snoop Dogg’s rap music, and then they, this gang of whores, will gather, sit down, and start discussing the state of affairs in the country.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV; Dito Chubinidze, journalist of Asaval-Dasavali: “This is a purposeful policy of the special services of America and related countries, so that there are no Georgians with conservative national faith in Georgia. Only gay agents should rule here; people like Zurab Girchi, immoral and unscrupulous people, and people like Eka Gigauri, immoral bitches […] Take measures to  clean the house of justice from Eka Gigauri, [Nikoloz Mzhavanadze] those “national whore” Euphrosynes. How long can these whores run the country?”