Polish Public Television (TVP) has launched VT Sakartvelo, a new Georgian-language news service, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland announced on April 27.
“The programme delivers reliable reporting, a European perspective, and supports efforts to counter disinformation in the region,” the Polish Foreign Ministry said in a post on X.
The project is being developed by TVP’s International Broadcasting Center, which produces several foreign-language programmes, including the Russian-language Vot Tak, as well as recently launched services in Armenian and Romanian.
VT Sakartvelo News is set to air from Monday to Friday on Belsat TV, and will also be available on YouTube and Facebook. The first 18-minute bulletin was broadcast on April 27.
The project team includes journalists working in Georgia and Poland, among them Natia Koberidze, Sophio Natsvlishvili, and Rati Mujiri.
“During a period of challenges like the one Georgia is going through now, it is very important that another window is opening – through which, under the Polish public broadcaster, we will have the opportunity to deliver free and balanced information to viewers,” said Rati Mujiri.
“It will be a distinctive and unique voice for Georgia from the European Union. The emergence of this bridge is fundamental at a time when relations between Georgia and the European Union are in a rather difficult phase,” said Natia Koberidze.
Georgia’s major pro-government TV channel Imedi, reporting on the launch, pointed to Natia Koberidze, who was among the journalists involved in the station’s controversial 2010 broadcast known as the “simulated Kronika,” which presented a hypothetical scenario of events in Georgia in the event of a Russian military advance. While the program opened with a brief disclaimer noting that the content was simulated, it did not reappear during the broadcast, causing many viewers to miss it, and stirring a widespread panic in Georgia after the audience was presented with fake reports and imagery about Russian troops advancing on Tbilisi, among others.
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