A Georgian opposition leader said the bogus...

The Democratic Movement - United Georgia party, led by ex-parliamentary speaker Nino Burdzhanadze, announced on Monday that it would file a lawsuit against the private Imedi TV channel, which reported that Russian tanks had invaded the capital Tbilisi and the country"s president was dead.

"This story illustrates the true nature of our leaders, who don"t care about consequences at all. That [fake report] threw the population into a state of fear and shock, but the aim of it was to intimidate the opposition and blacken its name," Burdzhanadze said in an interview with The Christian Science Monitor.

Ex-parliamentary speaker Burdzhanadze, who was a key ally of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in the 2003 Rose Revolution but later became a bitter critic of the government, said that the broadcast was a riposte to her recent visit to Moscow and talks with top Russian officials.

"For him [Saakashvili], any improvement in relations with Russia is negative. He wants

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