Putin to Georgia: don't provoke Russia
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President Vladimir Putin warned Georgia not to provoke or blackmail Russia on Wednesday as Moscow ignored international appeals to drop economic sanctions against its southern neighbor.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday played down Russia&#39;s string of disagreements with the European Union, insisting instead on the need for dialogue and mutual respect.
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MOSCOW - Russia&#39;s Vladimir Putin may be smarting over the turn of events in Ukraine, but he is not likely to push relations with the West into any Cold War-style confrontation, analysts say.
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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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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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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili offered on Monday to patch up differences with Russia. "Nobody wants to alienate Russia," he said.
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Russia warned on Friday that its plans to close military bases in Georgia were in doubt and Georgia claimed Russia was moving troops near their shared border, as relations between the countries deteriorated in one of their worst crises since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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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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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Georgia&#39;s repetition of the ``foolish&#39;&#39; policy toward its regions in the 1990s is prompting the unrest involving South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, according to Interfax.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin on  Friday urged the West to persuade Georgia's leadership to  change its "irresponsible" policies, the Kremlin press service  said in a statement.
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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday  that Russia would not allow itself to be drawn into what he  called a new global arms race.
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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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Russian leader Vladimir Putin says Georgia's arrest of four Russian officers for spying is "state terror".
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov  will travel to Tbilisi for Mikhail Saakashvili's inauguration  as Georgian president, his press department said on Wednesday,  despite tense relations between the two countries.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday strongly warned against foreign interference in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, accusing the West of trying to force its conception of democracy on countries in the region.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Friday urged the West to persuade Georgia's leadership to change its "irresponsible" policies, the Kremlin press service said in a statement.