Georgia accused Russia of "ethnic cleansing"
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Russia on Friday deported a planeload of Georgians it said were in the country illegally but Tbilisi said the Kremlin had now added a soft form of "ethnic cleansing" to its sanctions against its pro-Western neighbor.
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Georgia threatens to block Russia's membership of the WTO in a dispute over links between the two nations.
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MOSCOW - A top Russian general said today that Russia has completed withdrawal of troops that had been based in Georgia since the Soviet collapse, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. The presence of Russian troops in the former Soviet republic was one of the longtime irritants between Georgia and its neighbor. "There are no more Russian troops in Georgia; ...
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Russia prepared to deport about 130  Georgian "illegal immigrants" on Friday, stepping up a vigorous  campaign by Moscow to bring its southern neighbor to heel,  Russian agencies reported.
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Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili accuses Russia of leading "terror" missions on his country's territory.
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MOSCOW, Jan 14 (IPS) - Leading opposition candidate Levan Gachechiladze  has accused the Georgian government of widespread fraud in the  last presidential election after the Central Election Commission  released the final results declaring Mikheil Saakashvikli winner  and new president.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - Artillery fire killed at least  three Georgian soldiers in the breakaway South Ossetia region  on Wednesday and Russian President Vladimir Putin warned  Georgia not to repeat "stupid" mistakes that triggered war a  decade ago.
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TSKHINVALI, Georgia  - Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region says it wants to be part of Russia. If its finances are any guide, it already is.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Russia recalled its ambassador, announced the evacuation of its diplomats, and protested to the United Nations yesterday after Georgia detained five Russian officers on spying charges, bringing relations between the former Soviet neighbors to a new low.
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Hundreds of people looted shops and  burned a restaurant belonging to Caucasus businessmen in an  outbreak of racial violence in northwestern Russia triggered by  the recent killing of two locals, Russian media said on Sunday.
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Georgian forces fired at a plane they believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus republic's airspace on Wednesday, a senior interior ministry official said.
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At least six Georgian soldiers were killed and seven wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia's separatist, pro-Russian region of South Ossetia, an official with the Georgian interior ministry told AFP.
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Georgia is accused by a rights group of "excessive force" in its crackdown on November's opposition protests.
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Russia began pulling out some of its   officials from Georgia on Friday as the crisis mounted between   the two former Soviet states over spying charges.
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Russia said Saturday that it has suspended plans for further withdrawal of its troops from Georgia amid worsening relations between the two neighbors.
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Russia began pulling out some of its  diplomats and their families from Georgia on Friday as the  small ex-Soviet state pressed spying charges against a group of  Russian army officers.
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Georgian Defense Minister Georgy Baramidze Friday denied the Russian reports that there are Chechen bases and groups on the territory of Georgia, the Itar-Tass reported.