 Targamadze described the remarks as a "ploy" by opposition candidate Badri Patarkatsishvili.Later that month, he announced that the government was suspending the broadcasts of pro-opposition television stations Imedi and Kavkasia as part of a state of emergency declared by the president.On 5 October 2012, Russian pro-government news channel NTV aired a documentary titled "Anatomy Of A Protest 2", which accused Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, Udaltsov's assistant Konstantin Lebedev, and Leonid Razvozzhayev, a parliamentary aide to Russian opposition MP Ilya V. Ponomaryov, of meeting with Targamadze for the purpose of overthrowing Putin.