Putin fury at Georgia 'blackmail'
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President Putin warns Georgia not to use "blackmail" against Russia amid a bitter spying row.
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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 has demanded that Moscow quit part of a military base on the Black Sea, saying the sight of Russian troops drying their underwear is ruining the reputation of its former imperial master.
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Russia is expressing anger over remarks by the Dutch foreign minister in the wake of the school hostage crisis that left hundreds dead, many of them children.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin on  Friday urged the West to persuade Georgia's leadership to  change its "irresponsible" policies, the Kremlin press service  said in a statement.
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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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"You and I know, a dish does not make you sick"  Poland's foreign minister Radek Sikorski on Thursday accused Russia of blackmail for making threats aimed at derailing plans to allow the U.S. to install missile defence interceptors on Polish territory. via MyTELUS
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Georgia, acting to defuse its worst crisis with Russia for years, said on Monday it would hand over to international mediators four Russian army officers arrested on spying charges.
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Georgia fears it will be the target of Russian counter-terrorism strikes after the Beslan tragedy.
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Georgia likens Russia's treatment of its citizens since the spying row to a "mild form of ethnic cleansing".
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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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TBILISI -- Four Russian military officers were arrested on spying charges yesterday, and police surrounded a Russian military headquarters here demanding that a fifth Russian officer be handed over to authorities. The operation sparked a furious reaction from Russia, which demanded the officers' release, accusing its southern neighbor of ``a fresh outrage."
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin urges international pressure on Georgia, as tensions continue to escalate.
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Georgia accused the Russian military of   aiding South Ossetian rebels who shot at a helicopter carrying   the Georgian defense minister on Sunday and forced it to land.
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President Vladimir Putin accused Georgia on Sunday of "state terrorism with hostage-taking" in unusually harsh language suggesting a tough Russian response to Georgia's arrest of four Russian officers last week for spying.
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President Vladimir Putin used a year-end news conference yesterday to sharply criticize a wide range of US actions and attitudes on Ukraine, Chechnya
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BATUMI, Georgia  - Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili shrugged off on Monday Moscow's harsh reaction to the arrest of four Russian army officers for spying, that fueled a crisis in relations between the two ex-Soviet states.