{"id":690799,"date":"2010-03-14T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/georgian-tv-russian-hoax-2010-3"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:26:23","slug":"nation-of-georgia-goes-nuts-after-tv-network-shows-hoax-about-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/690799","title":{"rendered":"Nation Of Georgia Goes Nuts After TV Network Shows Hoax About Russian Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b9ce0117f8b9a0849b00600-282-211\/mikheil-saakashvilli.jpg?resize=282%2C211\" border=\"0\" alt=\"mikheil saakashvilli\" width=\"282\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is nuts.<\/p>\n<p>A news network in the nation of Georgia doing a special about what a &#8220;worst case scenario&#8221; would look like, caused mass panic by running a report on a Russian invasion, which claimed that the President had been captured.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this story particularly interesting is the suspicion that the Georgian government lead by President Mikheil Saakashvili was behind the production of the 30-minute segment in order to foment anger at Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Saakashvilli had once been the toast of Western leaders, who saw him as a reformist, but he seems to devolving into a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eWkCTMBACo0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/georgian-tv-russian-hoax-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/B7dboHhQ7pQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is nuts. A news network in the nation of Georgia doing a special about what a &#8220;worst case scenario&#8221; would look like, caused mass panic by running a report on a Russian invasion, which claimed that the President had been captured. What makes this story particularly interesting is the suspicion that the Georgian government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2THV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792082,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690799\/revisions\/792082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}