Tensions spike as Georgia alleges coup
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Georgia charged 14 opposition leaders with treason amid a struggle over Russian versus Western tilt.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Exasperated Georgians crowded at the capital's airport in disbelief yesterday after Russia cut all travel links with the former Soviet republic in retaliation for detaining four of its military officers for espionage.
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Georgia's president cancels his visit to Russia, amid growing tension between the two former Soviet republics.
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Political tensions in Ukraine increase as the supreme court prepares to consider claims of vote-rigging.
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Ethnic Georgians in the breakaway South Ossetia region block roads in a further escalation of tensions.
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Thousands of supporters of Abkhazia's opposition presidential candidate seized the office of the outgoing president Friday, raising tensions in the breakaway Georgian region nearly six weeks after a disputed &#151; and unresolved &#151; election.
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Russia orders a crackdown on Georgian-owned businesses and tighter visa measures in an escalating row.
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Georgia's main opposition leader says the authorities are preparing to rig Saturday's presidential election.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili hailed his election win as a triumph for democracy on Monday but his defeated opponent said it was rigged and was gearing up to hold mass protests in the capital.
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Last week, Georgia fired at an intruding Russian fighter, it claimed. The incident is the latest in a murky air war that both sides say is an intentional effort to spoil ties.
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TBILISI -- Four Russian military officers were arrested on spying charges yesterday, and police surrounded a Russian military headquarters here demanding that a fifth Russian officer be handed over to authorities. The operation sparked a furious reaction from Russia, which demanded the officers' release, accusing its southern neighbor of ``a fresh outrage."
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Georgian prosecutors on Thursday charged one of President Mikhail Saakashvili's most powerful opponents, Badri Patarkatsishvili, with plotting a coup and attempting to organize a terrorist attack.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has declared a state of emergency after sending in riot police to battle protesters demanding his resignation.
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As Moscow tightens controls on Georgians, Russian papers warn of the dangers of overreacting.
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More than a dozen activists who rallied in support of Georgia outside the country's embassy and accosted counter-protesters with taunts and eggs were arrested on Saturday.
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The attack threatened to intensify the continuing unrest that has destabilized the struggling young nation.
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Supporters of the leading presidential challenger were protesting what they said was a plot by the government to steal the closely contested election.