On 18 November 2008, at a Georgian parliamentary session, MP Giorgi Targamadze, the leader of parliamentary minority, said: "Georgia was obviously had an upper hand over the Russian Federation in the information war during [the August war] and for a certain period of time after those events. But, this trend has actually changed within past two". He further called on the Georgian Foreign Ministry, the National Security Council and the President’s administration to step up efforts "for neutralizing the anti-Georgian propaganda."