That headline is how government-owned TV channel RTR "Rossiya" (Russia) described the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush to the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The visit received coverage from nearly every mainstream media outlet in America (FOX, CNN, NYT), However, the Bush visit received very little or no coverage from the Russian media. Therefore, the average Russian will not have any knowledge about President Bush's visit to Georgia, or will receive very inadequate information about it.
Major Russian online newspapers said nothing at all; the major Russian TV channel ORT stressed the embarassing security problems, which the Georgians did not handle very well (according to the channel). Government-owned RTR said that "the Georgian nation has confused George W. Bush with the Messiah".
During the Rose Revolution in Georgia, the Russian media drew a convincing picture of Bush and CIA manipulating events behind the scene. Now when hundreds of thousands of Georgians are greeting the first American President ever to visit their country while holding American flags, the Russian media is nowhere to be found.
You can always tell blatant lies, but it can be kind of hard to cut and crop video footage. Then it would not look like real news. In this very confusing situation, Russian government-owned channels chose the simplest solution - silence.
Putin was also quite nervous through the day, some of that was reasonable, but I'm sure one of the reasons for his foul mood was the realization that he isn't the leader of a superpower. The ex-Soviet republics cherish their new freedoms; and Putin does not draw such crowds in foreign countries (or even, for that matter, in Moscow).
The last major pro-Putin rally was held in Moscow several months ago, and it brought out 30,000 people, mostly students from state universities. They were ordered to come, they received class credits and pocket money to join others like them in celebration of the leader. Saakashvili said that Georgia "is not North Korea", and they "cannot order these people into the streets. This [demonstration] is pure and sincere". He was honestly touched.
Putin was touched as well, touched by the realization that Russia also is not like North Korea, and that he cannot order that many people into the streets; and if you ask a Russian for his honest opinion of the government, it would break Putin's heart even more.
