შარჟი, როგორც საისტორიო წყარო საქართველოს შესახებ ბრიტანული და ახალზელანდიური კარიკატურების მაგალითზე

Abstract

British and New Zealand press paid some attention to Georgia, most notably, August War became the common topic of their interest. Additionally, British press was interested in the collapse of the Soviet Union, while New Zealand press paid attention to some social and political issues inside their countries and connected Georgia with those topics, for example, the death of Georgian sportsman during Vancouver Olympiad was used to criticize New Zealand television’s way of covering news or South Ossetia (Samachablo) was mentioned as place of political exile while addressing political outcasts of New Zealand. British authors usually are better informed about political events in Georgia and therefore, British cartoons reveal more in-depth acute political satire, while New Zealand authors are less informed and therefore their cartoons either show some superficial knowledge or reveal quite indifferent attitude towards the events. New Zealand authors usually are critical to every country involved in political processes, for example, during August War they criticized Georgia, USA and Russia equally, while the British authors were more prone to blame Russia. Overall, these cartoons are very interesting to show the attitude of more or less neutral or even very neutral press towards international events involving Georgia. Also, they are very useful tool to study cartoons created by objective and neutral authors.