Georgia says it fired at Russian plane this week
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Georgian forces fired at a plane they  believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus republic&#39;s  airspace on Wednesday, a senior interior ministry official  said.
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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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Georgian forces and South Ossetian separatists exchanged intense gun and mortar fire in the breakaway region, and officials said Wednesday that at least eight people were injured.
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Two Russian passenger planes that crashed almost simultaneously last week killing 90 people were blown up in a &quot;terrorist attack&quot; but not by hijackers, investigators said Monday.
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Russia's transport minister, citing a "black box" recording from one of two planes that crashed minutes apart last week, said Monday there was no evidence of a hijacking attempt or any other disturbance before the explosion aboard the jetliner.
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A Russian plane flying from St Petersburg in Russia to Doloman in Turkey had to turn back midflight after a drunken brawl over a young woman spun out of control, police said in a statement on Friday.
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MOSCOW: Russia said on Friday terrorists were behind one of the passenger-jet crashes as an Islamic group, which previously claimed an attack on prime minister-designate Shaukat Aziz, claimed responsibility for the twin plane crashes to avenge the killing
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Russia warned yesterday that its plans to close military bases in Georgia were in doubt, and Georgia said 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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Russia has acknowledged that one of its aircraft violated Finnish airspace last week, but said it was unintentional, Finland's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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The two almost-simultaneous plane crashes last week were caused by explosions, Russian investigators confirm.
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(CBS/AP) Russian officials said Friday that they had found traces of an explosive in the wreckage of one of two airliners that went down nearly simultaneously this week, as suspicion grew that the crashes were a terrorist act.
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An Islamist group has claimed that it  hijacked two Russian planes that crashed this week, killing at  least 89 people, and threatened more attacks, according to an  Internet statement posted on Friday.
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Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili accuses Russia of leading "terror" missions on his country's territory.
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TSKHINVALI, Georgia -- Explosions and gunfire echoed over this regional capital Thursday as government troops battled South Ossetian separatists over key hills outside town, after a week of near nightly clashes that escalated into some of the worst ...
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Georgian forces fired at an airplane  they believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus  republic&#39;s airspace on Wednesday, a senior interior ministry  official said.
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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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A Russian plane flying  from St Petersburg in Russia to Doloman in Turkey had to turn  back midflight after a drunken brawl over a young woman spun  out of control, police said in a statement Friday.