Russia cuts links to Georgia despite "spy" release
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Russia threw up a blockade against Georgia on Monday after Tbilisi's release of four arrested Russian soldiers failed to defuse the worst crisis in years between the ex-Soviet 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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MOSCOW, July 14 -- Russia on Saturday formally suspended its participation in a conventional arms treaty dating from the last years of the Cold War that limited NATO and Russian military deployments in Europe.
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Russia has suspended its participation in a key pact limiting conventional forces in Europe through a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said in a statement on Saturday.
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MOSCOW Oct. 3 -- Russia signaled Tuesday that it would not lift a transportation blockade on Georgia despite the release of four Russian officers detained on espionage charges and calls from the European Union and the United States that the two countries find ways to ease tensions.
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Russia deported on Friday a planeload of  Georgians accused of illegal immigration in its latest blow  against its southern neighbor, officials said.
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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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Russian sanctions will not break Georgia's economy, the country's president said late on Thursday as the Kremlin widened its attack by freezing work permits and closing down Georgian-owned businesses.
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Russia deported a planeload of Georgians accused of immigration offences on Friday, the latest retaliation by Moscow intended to bring its small southern neighbor to heel.
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Russia on Tuesday suspended all transport and postal links with Georgia until further notice, in a sharp escalation of the dispute between Moscow and its small southern neighbor.
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Russia threw up a blockade against  Georgia on Monday after Tbilisi's release of four Russian  soldiers accused of spying failed to defuse the worst crisis in  years between the ex-Soviet neighbors.
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President Vladimir Putin warned Georgia on Wednesday not to cross Russia as Moscow cracked down on Georgian businesses in the city, the latest retaliatory step in a row that has outgrown the spying claims that sparked it.
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Russia on Monday cleared the way for  British detectives probing the mystery poisoning of former KGB  spy Alexander Litvinenko to visit Moscow, and promised to help  their investigation.
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Russia on Thursday recalled its ambassador from Georgia and announced a partial evacuation of diplomats and their families from the former Soviet republic as relations between the two countries hit a new low.
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President Putin warns Georgia not to use "blackmail" against Russia amid a bitter spying row.
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Russia has sent Britain a letter officially turning down a request to extradite the main suspect in the murder of Russian emigre Alexander Litvinenko, Interfax news agency said on Thursday.
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The release did not prevent Russia from announcing that it would suspend air, rail, sea and automobile transportation links.