Russia threatens further sanctions
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin yesterday accused Georgia of blackmail and lawmakers threatened more sanctions as Moscow police went after businesses allegedly tied to Georgian organized crime and cracked down on illegal migrants from the Caucasus Mountains nation.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Germany and France said on Friday Iran would face another round of sanctions if it refuses to bow to U.N. demands that it suspend its nuclear enrichment program.
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Russia raised concerns Friday about proposals to extend U.N. sanctions against Iran to its elite Revolutionary Guards, while China warned that reducing credit to the Islamic country could punish the Iranian people for their government's nuclear defiance.
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Hitting Iran now with sanctions over its   nuclear work could drive it "away from the civilized world," a   Kremlin official said on Tuesday, in a hint of strong Russian   opposition to punitive steps backed by Washington.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration may impose sanctions against leaders of the former Soviet republic of Belarus as part of a broader range of punitive measures, the State Department said Thursday.
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Japan, Britain and the European Union all expressed worries on Tuesday about RussiaÂs actions.
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Russia warns Nato it could freeze participation in Europe's arms control pact, after talks end in deadlock.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday said it was putting "legal pressure" on the British Council, including visa sanctions, after the council reopened two regional offices in defiance of a Russian ban.
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Russian oil major YUKOS again warned on Thursday that it may be forced to cut output after saying that a Moscow court ruled this week that &#36;2.6 billion of company funds could be seized by the authorities.
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RUSSIAâS business leaders are bracing themselves for a further assault from the Kremlin after the effective renationalisation last week of Yukos, the oil company formerly headed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed billionaire tycoon.
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Russia opposes new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program at this time because it would undermine a study by the U.N. atomic watchdog of Iran's activities, Russian news agencies said on Thursday.
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Russia's foreign minister urged the United States on Saturday to freeze plans for missile defense installations in eastern Europe during negotiations and warned that the proposal &#151; intended to serve as a buffer against Iran &#151; could backfire.
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Threats by Russia to take further action against the British Council "can only make matters worse", the foreign secretary says.
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An escalating confrontation between Georgia and Russia and the Russian sanctions that accompany it are threatening GeorgiaÂs economy.
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Russia issued a veiled warning on Friday that it could deploy rockets in its Kaliningrad enclave bordering the European Union if Washington does not draw back from its missile defence plans.
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Russian oil giant Yukos suffers another blow in its tax battle after a Moscow court rules it must pay $1.4bn (Â£778m) in fines.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia's top general threatened  on Wednesday to attack "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world,  as security services put a $10 million bounty on two Chechen  rebels they blame for last week's school siege.