# Russian propaganda sites target Georgia with disinformation

Published: 2025-11-28 · Severity: routine · Sectors: government-national, media
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/2e66f906-1d53-5da4-ab8e-916c080f6707/russian-propaganda-sites-target-georgia-with-disinformation

> Three websites launder sanctioned Russian content and amplify anti-West narratives about Georgia's elections and protests.

The DFRLab identified three websites—The Intel Drop, newsnet.fr, and Canal666—that republish and amplify content from sanctioned Russian entities including New Eastern Outlook (NEO), Strategic Culture Foundation, RT, and South Front. These sites target Georgia with disinformation narratives falsely claiming Western interference in elections, CIA orchestration of protests, and alleged coup attempts. Content originates from sanctioned Russian propaganda outlets and is manually duplicated or republished through automated mirroring across English, French, and Polish-language platforms. The campaigns intensified ahead of Georgia's October 4, 2024 local elections, with articles misrepresenting legitimate election fraud concerns and portraying Georgia's pro-democracy movement as Western-backed destabilization. The websites use Cloudflare hosting, hidden timestamps, and internal APIs to obscure content sourcing and maintain plausible deniability of direct sanctions violation.

## Mentioned in this report

- Threat actors: Storm-1516
- Campaigns: Storm-1516

1 detection for this report is in the app: the rules that match its indicators, the Sigma rules already converted to Splunk SPL, to Elastic where their fields map onto Elastic's integrations and to Microsoft Defender XDR KQL wherever Defender records the activity, and the YARA and Suricata. A new account gets three days of them free.

Source reporting: https://dfrlab.org/2025/11/28/suspicious-websites-amplify-narratives-from-sanctioned-russian-entities-targeting-georgia

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