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Mamuka Khazaradze (left) being interviewed by POSTV. Screengrab from POSTV video.

2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Armenophobic attacks by pro-government media target Georgian opposition leader

by Shota Kincha

•3 min read

Pro-government TV channel POSTV has launched a series of Armenophobic attacks against the chair of the Lelo party and leading figure in the broader Strong Georgia opposition alliance, Mamuka Khazaradze. On 11 October, POSTV released a video showing an unnamed reporter pressing Khazaradze with accusations that he was concealing his supposed Armenian heritage. The on-the-spot interview was evidently recorded on 10 October, when Khazaradze and Strong Georgia were holding a campaign event in Tel

Shalva Ramishvili appearing on his programme Samni & Co.

Azerbaijan

Podcast | Exclusionary nationalism in Azerbaijan and getting away with sexual harassment in Georgia

by OC Media

•1 min read

Bahruz Samadov, a researcher at Charles University in Prague, talks about nationalism in Azerbaijan and the reactions to his opinion piece about the Azerbaijani regime’s exclusionary and militant nationalism. Read more: * Opinion | Azerbaijan needs an alternative to nationalist militarism Mariam Nikuradze shares the latest on the sexual harassment accusations levelled against POSTV co-owner Shalva Ramishvili. Read more: * Pro-government Georgian TV station attack

Georgia

Pro-government Georgian TV station attacks woman who was harassed by its founder

by Tata Shoshiashvili

•3 min read

The Georgian pro-government TV channel, POSTV, has run a series of negative stories on a woman who was found to have been sexually harassed by the channel’s founder, Shalva Ramishvili. It comes as Ramishvili faces an onslaught of new allegations of sexual harassment from at least six more women. Last week, the channel accused Tatia Samkharadze of taking money from the opposition United National Movement party (UNM) in exchange for ‘organising a campaign’ against Ramishvili. Samkharadze,

Georgia

Pro-government Georgian TV channel merges with anti-West group People’s Power

by Shota Kincha

•4 min read

A TV channel dedicated to ‘exposing’ and criticising the Georgian Government’s liberal opposition has announced that it will become the media arm of People’s Power, a Georgian Dream spin-off group dedicated to criticising Georgia’s western partners. On Tuesday, POSTV announced that, in line with their previous ‘ideological platform’, they had become a media platform for People’s Power. The channel, which has previously been accused of supporting pro-Kremlin and far-right groups and engaging