Georgia's crackdown on separatist provinces may provoke war with Russia
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MOSCOW (CP) - War clouds are gathering over the former Soviet Caucasus region as Georgia's U.S.-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili moves to re-unite his fractured nation by pressuring two separatist provinces that have close ties to Russia.
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Overnight clashes killed six Georgian servicemen in the rebel South Ossetia region, which Tbilisi is trying to bring back under government control, Deputy Security Minister Gigi Ugulava said on Thursday.
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Russia suggested Friday that Kosovo's expected Western-backed declaration of independence from Serbia will affect its policy on two separatist regions in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. But it stopped short of saying it would recognize the breakaway provinces.
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Officials in Georgia say at least two soldiers have been killed and five wounded in the latest battles with separatist fighters in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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Russia will change its policy towards  the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia if  Kosovo is recognized as independent, Interfax news agency  quoted the foreign ministry as saying on Friday.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Three Georgian servicemen were killed while five others were wounded in overnight fighting in Georgia&#39;s breakaway province of South Ossetia, Russian news agencies reported, citing Georgian officials.
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Georgia is worried it will become the first place where Moscow will carry out its threat of preventive strikes against terrorists.
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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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Georgia is accused by a rights group of "excessive force" in its crackdown on November's opposition protests.
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Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Three Georgian soldiers were killed and five wounded in fighting in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, Agence France-Presse reported, citing an unidentified Georgian government official.
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Georgia on Monday said it would hand over four Russian army officers arrested on spying charges to European mediators in a decision that will help defuse a crisis with Russia.
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Russia may intervene in the Georgian region of Abkhazia if a crisis over the disputed election is not resolved.
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Georgia released four Russian officers whose arrest on spying charges has angered its giant northern neighbor, but a vengeful Russia pushed ahead Monday with punitive sanctions aimed at dealing a painful blow to the economically struggling Caucasus nation.
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Georgian government forces engaged separatists in battle for strategic areas near South Ossetia&#39;s main city yesterday in some of the worst fighting in the breakaway region since a war more than a decade ago.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - Georgian forces seized  strategic heights from separatist fighters in rebel South  Ossetia Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised  more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his  fractious country.
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At least two Georgian soldiers were killed and five wounded in artillery fire with separatists in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Georgian officials said on Wednesday.