Putin faults Georgia on &#39;90s tactics in 2 regions
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TBILISI, Georgia The separatist conflicts in Georgia resulted from the &quot;foolish&quot; move by Georgia to strip South Ossetia and Abkhazia of their autonomous status during the Soviet collapse, President Vladimir Putin of Russia was quoted as saying on ...
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VLADIMIR Putin, the Russian president, yesterday used his end-of-year press conference to accuse western states of attempting to isolate and destabilise his country.
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Since Vladimir Putin became Russia&#39;s president in 2000, he has had his eye on tightening the state&#39;s direct control over the energy sector.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is defending his government&#39;s efforts to strengthen and centralize control in the wake of several recent terrorist attacks.
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A summit of ex-Soviet republics billed as forging a common front against terrorism after the Beslan school siege descended into acrimony as Georgia accused Russia of double standards.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of applying &quot;double standards&quot; in democratic elections, including Ukraine&#39;s presidential poll.
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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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Georgian government forces engaged separatists in battle Thursday for strategic areas in South Ossetia in some of the worst fighting in the breakaway region since a war began more than a decade ago.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is ready to contribute to a settlement of conflict between Georgia and its separatist province of South Ossetia.
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The spate of terrorist attacks in Russia illustrates that President Vladimir V. Putin&#39;s hard-line policy in Chechnya is failing to resolve that conflict or to make Russians safer.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin injected himself directly into the election crisis in this former Soviet republic Thursday, strongly attacking the opposition&#39;s central demand for a new presidential runoff and cautioning the West against getting too
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Georgia fears it will be the target of Russian counter-terrorism strikes after the Beslan tragedy.
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President Vladimir Putin warned Georgia on Wednesday not to provoke or blackmail Russia as Moscow tightened the screw on its southern neighbor.
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Vladimir Putin repeats his threat to target neighbouring states over the proposed US missile defence shield.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Sunday accused neighboring Georgia of behaving like Stalin's  secret police, stoking a row over Georgia's arrest of four  Russian officers last week for spying.
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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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President Vladimir Putin warned Georgia on Wednesday not to cross Russia as Moscow cracked down on Georgian businesses in the city, the latest retaliatory step in a row that has outgrown the spying claims that sparked it.