Georgia and Russia clash at U.N.
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Georgia's president told world leaders Wednesday that Russia continues to interfere in its domestic politics and engage in "reckless and dangerous" behavior, the latest in a series of conflicts between the two countries.
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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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Georgia on Tuesday urged Russia  to stop naval exercises near the countries' sea border, calling  them a threat to regional peace and a violation of the United  Nations charter.
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POTSDAM, Germany -- Foreign ministers from the Group of 8 countries clashed yesterday over the future of Kosovo after Russia warned that a United Nations plan to pave the way for independence from Serbia could encourage separatist movements in the Russian-backed regions of Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.
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NATO countries have agreed to offer   ex-Soviet Georgia talks on closer ties with the Western   alliance, NATO sources said on Monday, a move likely to anger   Russia.
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Russia warns it will change its policy towards separatist allies in Georgia if Kosovo is granted independence.
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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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Tension persisted in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, where the outgoing president Saturday accused the opposition candidate in last month's disputed presidential election of attempting a coup after his supporters occupied the government compound.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Russia recalled its ambassador, announced the evacuation of its diplomats, and protested to the United Nations yesterday after Georgia detained five Russian officers on spying charges, bringing relations between the former Soviet neighbors to a new low.
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BEIJING, Aug.21 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Georgia and its South Ossetia region to renounce violence and settle their standoff through talks.
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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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President Vladimir Putin warned Georgia on Wednesday not to provoke or blackmail Russia as Moscow ignored international appeals to drop economic sanctions against its southern neighbor.
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Georgian and South Ossetian forces overnight accused each other of trying to storm the other side's positions in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, as four Georgian soldiers were reported to be wounded.
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NATO defense ministers faced a tense meeting with their Russian counterpart Friday after the Western alliance angered Moscow by agreeing to deepen cooperation with Georgia.
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Russia has deported a planeload of Georgians, in an escalating row with the Caucasus republic.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- US Secretary of State Colin Powell has called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over the conflict in Georgia&#39;s breakaway region of South Ossetia, State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said on Tuesday.
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Georgia&#39;s repetition of the ``foolish&#39;&#39; policy toward its regions in the 1990s is prompting the unrest involving South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, according to Interfax.