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Georgia's leading broadcaster, Rustavi 2, has decided to break with its normal practise of ignoring the output of the Russian sponsorsed regime in Tskhinvali and instead led its 18.00 Kurieri bulletin with the occupation authorities' report on a visit by pro-opposition human rights activists.

The channel, which is unremittingly pro-government and recieves what Georgian ministers euphemistically refer to as "state aid" to stay on air, attacked Republican party member Paata Zakareishvili for allegedly referring to the breakway region as South Ossetia and referring to the head of the region's de facto authorities, Eduard Kokoity, as "president".

Zakareishvili denied the claims, for which Rustavi 2 seemed to have no corroboration beyond the propaganda of what they refer to as "the Tskhinvali occupational regime".

Official Georgian practise is to refer to the breakaway region as "Tskhinvali" or as part of Shida Kartli (the official Georgian province) or Java - a subdistrict of the province.

However in 2008 President Mikheil Saakashvili refered, in his inauguration speech, to the breakaway as "სამხრეთ ოსეთით" - samxret osetit - in other words "South Ossetia" (it is around 5:26 in the video above).

Nobody is expecting Misha to be denounced as a traitor by Rustavi 2 any time soon, though.