http://www.asavali.ge

mail@asavali.ge

Address:

#18a Zhiuli Shartava St, Tbilisi 0160

Phone:

0322 15 25 25

Print media Newspaper "Asaval-Dasavali"

The newspaper Asaval-Dasavali was established on 3 March 1992. It is a weekly paper published every Monday. The owner of 100 percent of the shares in the newspaper is Lasha Nadareishvili who also acts as the editor-in-chief.

According to the report of Transparency International Georgia, Lasha Nadareishvili owns shares in several other companies all of which are connected with the publication of the newspaper. Nadareishvili is also the owner Georgian Telegraph Agency LLC and a member of the board of the Georgia Press Association.

The newspaper is ill-famed for its hate speech towards various ethnic, religious and LGBT groups, as well as towards groups with different worldview and political identity, more precisely, towards the United National Movement. Apart from openly declared xenophobic and homophobic content, the edition also stirs anti-Western sentiments. The newspaper’s platform is more of an ethno-nationalist, however, as a research of the Media Development Fund reveals, the content is identical to the narrative of openly pro-Russian media outlets.

In 2016, Asaval-Dasavali proved to be the most homophobic edition, as the amount of homophobic comments made amounted to 70 for journalists and 90 for the respondents, with the total number of editorial comments containing hate speech reaching 101.