The pro-government media outlet TV Imedi covered the visit of Nino Dolidze, Giorgi Burjanadze, and Giorgi Oniani to Strasbourg. According to available information, they met with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset.

In the Kronika report, the visit was covered in a discrediting context and described as a “familiar scenario” and an action “against one’s own country.” The report stated that, based on their comments made in media outlets “acceptable to them,” the topic of the meeting with Alain Berset was again “sanctions and punitive mechanisms.”

A similar narrative was disseminated by other pro-government media outlets as well, including POSTV. In these materials, the visit and international meetings of civil society representatives were again portrayed as actions directed against the country and as an attempt to support sanctions.

Such coverage portrays the international advocacy of civil society representatives as action directed against the country. The material repeats a narrative according to which the activities of critical civic actors are directed not toward democratic processes and the protection of human rights, but toward harming the state.