Russia issues sanctions on Georgia despite freed officers
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Georgia released four Russian officers whose arrests on spying charges have angered its giant northern neighbor, but Russia pushed ahead yesterday with punitive sanctions aimed at dealing a painful blow to the economically struggling Caucasus nation.
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Police in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region refuse to take orders from the government.
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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 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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MOSCOW - Russian police on Thursday freed several hostages being held by twin brothers fleeing the army who earlier killed two police officers.
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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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Four Russian officers charged with spying in Georgia will be handed over to OSCE officials, a spokesman says.
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Russia started evacuating personnel from its embassy in the Georgian capital as Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili angrily denied that they were in any danger, during a row over the arrest of alleged Russian spies.
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Russia has deported a planeload of Georgians, in an escalating row with the Caucasus republic.
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Georgia on Monday released four Russian officers whose arrest on spying charges prompted Moscow to announce sweeping travel and communications sanctions in the worst bilateral crisis in years.
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Russia suspends the withdrawal of its forces from Georgia, as tensions between the two countries escalate.
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Georgia, acting to defuse its worst crisis with Russia for years, said on Monday it would hand over to European mediators four Russian army officers arrested on spying charges.
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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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Georgia on Monday handed over to international mediators four Russian army officers whose arrest on spying charges triggered the worst crisis in years between the ex-Soviet neighbors.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has dismissed sharp words by Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying Moscow was unlikely to use force to free four Russian officers whose arrest for spying has sparked a crisis.
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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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Four Russian army officers arrested in Georgia for spying were allowed to fly home on Monday as Tbilisi tried to defuse the worst crisis in years between the ex-Soviet neighbours.