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Georgia's Imedi TV apologizes for mock report
| Mar 14, 2010 10:26 Moscow Time |
Georgia’s Imedi TV channel has apologized to viewers by a running line over a mock report on Saturday evening. The report alleged that the South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity had been attacked in Tskhinval, that Russian tanks had been moving to Tbilisi, that President Mikheil Saakashvili had been killed and a new government led by Nino Burjanadze had been formed. It lasted half an hour. Only in the beginning and in the end of the report it was said that this was only a possible scenario. The Georgian president’s press secretary Manana Mangjgaladze has said the report was a violation of journalistic ethics and that there was no threat of a Russian invasion. Russia and South Ossetia slammed the Imedi report as a provocation.
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