The following trends were identified in September:

• Xenophobic messages were mainly directed against Georgia’s neighboring countries again – Armenia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. After Azerbaijan launched an attack on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, disinformation spread that Armenian refugees were planned to be resettled in Georgia.

• Some authors of xenophobic statements on the conflict sided with Azerbaijan in the military confrontation, as they considered Azerbaijan an ally of Russia and Armenia an ally of the West. However, there were also anti-Azerbaijani messages that made references to historical occupation. In one case, a natural disaster that occurred in Georgia was presented as God’s punishment because of Davit Gareji, a religious building located on the Georgian-Azerbaijani border.

• Xenophobic statements against Ukrainians living in Georgia were made because of the protest rallies organized by them.

• Although, in contrast to the West, China was not seen as a threat to Georgian identity, following reports of the abolition of the visa travel regime with China, some actors emphasized the demographic risks associated with the visa-free regime.

• Homophobic messages were again voiced in an anti-Western context, emphasizing the threat of “degeneration” of youth. This time, the homophobic narrative was linked to TBC Bank and the SABA Literary Award it established.

• Authors of racist messages presented people of color residing in Georgia as second-rate citizens and, in some cases, suggested “white Russia” as a counterbalance to them.

• The President of Ukraine was the target of religious discrimination. The statement that Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not an Orthodox Christian was used to belittle him.

• Following the announcement by the State Security Service of an ostensibly impending coup d'état, allegations that the West was preparing unrest, including a “gay revolution” in Georgia, intensified.

• Sexist hate speech was used against President Salome Zourabichvili, former Public Defender Nino Lomjaria, and women politicians from the opposition.

In September, xenophobic messages were mainly related to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Emphasis was placed on the demographic threat allegedly emanating from Armenia and the threat of territorial expansion allegedly emanating from Azerbaijan. Turkey was again presented as an occupier that only Russia could contain. Xenophobic statements against Ukrainians temporarily living in Georgia were made in connection with the protest rallies organized by them.

Mamuka Kartozia, Alliance of Patriots: “Now there will be a lot of refugees; we see that Armenians are leaving Artsakh, Karabakh; this territory will be emptied; and it cannot be ruled out that this Armenian population will head to Georgia and… I do not exclude that they will head to Abkhazia… We should not take this lightly because they have already acquired territories in Abkhazia and the Armenian population there has already increased …”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “Natural disasters are happening, and why are they happening? We are being punished for giving up our second Jerusalem. I wonder where all those people are who were crying that Davit Gareji is Georgia? … Did the 6,000 Gareji monks suffer martyrs’ deaths for Azerbaijan to take over our territories and then make history for itself? They made their history at our expense.”

Giorgi Kardava, Conservative Movement: “If you are in friendly relations with the West, you do not have to automatically become a pederast, and if you are in friendly relations with China, you do not have to resettle all the Chinese in Georgia! […] It’s fine if [Chinese] money flows in, Chinese factories are opened, the Silk Road is perfect for us, and the sea port in Anaklia is also perfect for us, but the only threat that comes from China is demographic expansion, and why on earth are you allowing this [threat] and allowing pederasty from the West? What is this after all?! There are elementary things, and don’t you realize that?!”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “No one complains about Turks, Arabs, or Iranians buying… You walk along Aghmashenebeli [Avenue] and… they have no idea who this Davit Aghmashenebeli is… Rest assured, they think that Davit Aghmashenebeli is a meal, a food, or a cake. Walking along Aghmashenebeli, you will see that Davit’s spirit is really concerned, as Aghmashenebeli [Avenue] now belongs to the Turks. You walk in Didi Dighomi and see that Didi Dighomi belongs to Iranians; Adjara belongs completely to Turks…”

Dito Chubinidze, journalist: “We recommend the government to be all eyes and ears and call for immediate expulsion of Ukrainian deserters from the country, bullets meant for which hit Georgian fighters and hit Jumber Silagava, shot in front of his wife and children in Dnepropetrovsk! It is unacceptable that citizens of a foreign country, or rather military deserters, organize protests on the main avenue of Georgia.”

Dito Chubinidze, journalist: “It is unacceptable that a black man [an African living in Georgia] who fell out of a chimney should berate us from TV screens and ask us what our grievances are.”

Grisha Oniani, Society Stalin: “You give children to negroes, and you consider this acceptable?! You raise toasts, don’t you? But you consider it unacceptable that I love Russians… Why is it unacceptable for me to love Russians? If it is acceptable for you to love Americans, say, a person of color, why is it unacceptable for me to love a white woman?”

Soso Shatberashvili, Leftists Alliance: “Ukraine is completely controlled by the USA, and Zelenskyy was brought in on purpose to destroy the Ukrainian nation, because Zelenskyy is not Ukrainian, not an Orthodox Christian. and not a Christian at all.”

As in previous months, Muslim countries were seen as a threat to Georgia and the Christian religion.

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “The fact that there was no mosque in Guria and there are 28 mosques, is that normal? I respect Muslims and Muslim religion, but Georgia has been a Christian country, and I do not want Georgia to become a non-Christian country. Never in the Soviet Union, under communist rule, was there a mosque in Guria, and what is happening today?”

In September, homophobic messages targeted opposition political parties, the youth, and the SABA Literary Award winners, including Georgian writer Zaza Burchuladze. They were labelled as Western-funded LGBT propagandists.

The execution of homosexuals was a matter of dignity

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, presenter: “The SABA Literary Award is held with the active direct participation of this bank (TBC Bank), where prizes are awarded to porn poets and, excuse my French, prostitutes and pederasts… Burchuladze, who intends to put the Patriarch into a cage and insults the Church, called his book ‘The Gospel of Donkey’ and thus he himself says that he is, excuse me, is a cocksucker.”

LGBT propaganda perverts/degrades young generation

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “Georgia is filled with boys wearing earrings and pantyhose; Georgia is the country of manly men, not the country of pederasts.”

Those arrested for violence at a homophobic rally are unjustly imprisoned

Jaba Zhvania, presenter of Alt-Info: “The boys were jailed for five years, and for what? For taking down the flag of perversion and preventing the pride of perversion.”

Anti-Western messages actively spread the opinion that the West was working to degrade the future generation, fighting Georgian identity and demanding the legalization of same-sex marriage as a condition for European integration.

The EU demands that Georgia legalize same-sex marriage

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “In fact, a gay revolution is being prepared in Georgia; this is not an aspiration for Europe at all. Europe is depraved today, the Europe where the Strasbourg court told us that we should tolerate when St. Nino is depicted on a condom, because it is freedom of expression.”

Shota Martinenko, Conservative Movement: “There are rumors that quite a large part of the American political elite are pedophiles; for example, Biden’s entourage, the Clintons’ entourage, all this Hollywood, all this financial elite, and the cultural elite. They are engaged in some depraved pedophilic entertainment. These rumors are as intense as they were with Misha [Mikheil Saakashvili] during Misha’s rule. […] It is quite likely that these rumors are true. Indeed, the West is ruled by some perverts, sick pedophiles.”  

Giorgi Kardava, Conservative Movement: “By the way, things are not good in Joe Biden’s family. His child, i.e., Joe Biden’s child, published a diary, a memoir, … where she recalls a case when, as a 12-year-old, she took a shower together with his father, Joe Biden. I think a 12 year-old girl should not take a shower with her father. To put it very mildly, there is something wrong here, isn’t it?! […] Why should a perverted pedophile be president?”

Shota Martinenko, Conservative Movement: “Parents will not have the right to bring up their children according to their principles; the system will start bringing up their children according to a completely anti-human ideology and will destroy them, turn them into miserable people…. rape them, destroy their psychology, turn them into sick people, and then the future generation in these circumstances will certainly be doomed […] Those who are locals will be destroyed, and migrants from healthy nations who have not gone mad will come. They will digest the locals and absorb them.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, presenter: “Soros came here long ago, when Jumber Patiashvili was the Secretary of the Central Committee, and do you know for what topics he came? Exactly for the topic of education, and cultural issues. This code that the future generation should be destroyed in Georgia was laid back in 1987-88.”

Tristan Tsitelashvili, military expert: “Billions were spent to get this very depraved generation we see today. American kindergartens that were created in their time, as well as American schools… These are the same young people who attended American kindergartens and American schools […] The USA is spending huge amounts of money to get a generation that will be easy for it to control. If it needs to, it will take them to the streets; if it needs them to drop their pants, they will drop their pants as soon as they are told to do so.” 

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “This is a generation that has lost God; this is a generation of rascals created by the West. They are scoundrels. They do not care about the homeland. […] Today, in Shovi, these inebriated young people mock hymns and then walk around naked… Let them walk in their underpants to their lovers and their whores… In Abkhazia, [clothing] is very strictly regulated … Will they come back when they see you insulting hymns and running around naked, depraved, and debased? No one wants a depraved and debased Georgia. I do not need such Georgia, and would Abkhazs need it?”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “This is the kind of youth that the West brought up – with the flag of LGBT, with the flag of sodomy next to the cross of St. Nino. This is the generation that America has created. This is the generation of Misha’s bushes; these are the kind of people who are at the forefront today. […] What do you think this generation of pederasts will do tomorrow and the day after tomorrow? Will this generation of pederasts, who insult the cross, do anything for the country? They do not give a damn about Abkhazia and Samachablo.”

Irakli Martinenko, Conservative Movement: “From the West come demands for the creation of gender police, the introduction of women’s quotas, arrests on charges of domestic violence – and the highest number of prisoners are convicted for this - and teaching of children gender theories at school. Yes, that’s what they teach. All this is being implemented here, and then the West demanded that a representative from Europe come and have to report to him about the results …”

Giorgi Akhvlediani, media policy expert: “It was after the start of the war that we began to openly talk about the fact that [the West] demands everything non-Georgian and anti-Georgian from us - from war to economic devastation and so on.”

Beso Barbakadze, journalist: “Do not think that the promise of [admission to] NATO and the EU was invented only for us; a number of countries have been fed similar promises for many years, but instead they are trying to adjust the country’s legislation and way of life to the American style. Yes, the way of life too, because they do not need ancient cultures and traditions at all.”

Shota Martinenko, Conservative Movement: “The West is pederasty, i.e., pro-pederasty! That’s what it is, nothing else. Feminism and pro-pederasty.”

Sexist hate speech was mainly related to an incident that occurred in the parliament on September 20, when, during a speech by Culture Minister Thea Tsulukiani, female opposition MPs unfurled a banner reading “Russian warship, go fuck yourself!” in protest. To offend these women, the main messages portrayed them as sexually unattractive and frustrated.

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “Excuse me, but if you [addressing female opposition MPs] have problems and your partners cannot satisfy you, what can we do? Well, it is really a sacrifice for a man to satisfy you, because it is very difficult [to satisfy you]; looking at you, a man has to get very drunk, indeed, to really sacrifice himself…”

Gela Zedelashvili, journalist of Asaval-Dasavali: “A woman who tries to get into a fight with a man is very dangerous. It is enough for her to scratch you slightly, and you will need some vaccinations immediately. It is obvious that such women have multiplied in the parliament, and the closer the elections come, the more aggressive they become… Now the rabid women are experiencing crisis because their parliamentary term is expiring, and as soon as they imagine that next year this time they will have to sit in the kitchen, they have tantrums, become aggressive, and go to beating.”

Shalva Papuashvili, Chairperson of the Parliament: “I am very sorry that especially women MPs are distinguished by the most shameful behavior that an MP can resort to. This is discreditation, including the role of women in politics, when the main role she has taken on is hysteria, radicalism, and absolute infringement on human dignity. I believe that these women MPs are grossly insulting the mandate of parliament and also defaming the role of women in politics, and it is because of them that the perception has been formed that women in politics can only throw tantrums and radicalism.”

Soso Tsintsadze, political scientist: “I would not want to be in the president’s shoes. Let’s say Saakashvili dies, and how a woman, a mother, should continue to live when she could have saved one life but did not do it.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, presenter: “As they say, ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune’ and when you are paid such huge amounts of money, 10,000 USD a month… ‘for three rubles, even a Poti policemeister will undress’ and for 10,000 USD, Nino Lomjaria will certainly undress, but for me personally, her undressing will not be a great pleasure because she does not have a figure, which is pleasant….”

Dito Chubinidze, co-host of Sezoni TV: “It turns out Baia [Pataraia] has beautiful legs. Baia, show us your legs. Cover your face but show us your legs… Do not talk, Baia; just show us your legs. She has quite pretty legs. They are really pretty.”

Soso Shatberashvili, Leftist Alliance: “When the COVID epidemics broke out, Lomjaria came out and declared that isolating infected people in hotels and locking them in separate rooms was a violation of human rights. Could one be a more stupid person? By the way, it was then that I called this person a fool, and she felt offended.”

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, presenter: “This woman [Salome Zourabichvili] is a witless woman; she could not learn Georgian. When she speaks, you need an interpreter. This woman is a bombshell…”

Levan Gabashvili, journalist for Georgia and World: “[Salome] Zourabichvili behaves like an unruly child. Do you remember a Georgian saying that in old age, grandparents think the same way as grandchildren? I cannot say whose advice Ms. Salome is following, but…”

Slut-shaming

Nikoloz Mzhavanadze, host of Sezoni TV: “Who would want to have a dialogue with Georgians… when they watch a Georgian woman go and ask for a sex organ? Go to a brothel and stay there… Your place is in a brothel, not in parliament. You should work in brothels. I am addressing Samnidze, and I am addressing Kordzaia… when a woman writes something that contains a requirement for sex organs. I wonder why they are in the parliament. Your place is in the political brothel, and not only in a political brothel… There you can get satisfaction.”

Giorgi Dzadzamia, journalist for Asaval-Dasavali: “Kvesitadze, who was advised by the late Tamaz Tsivtsivadze 20 years ago to get off Saakashvili’s knees, is still not going to get off, although Misha’s knees are too narrow and there is actually no space there anymore!”