Russia prepares to deport "illegal" Georgians
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Russia prepared to deport about 130  Georgian "illegal immigrants" on Friday, stepping up a vigorous  campaign by Moscow to bring its southern neighbor to heel,  Russian agencies reported.
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An opposition leader is preparing to swear himself in as president in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia two months after a disputed election, defying Moscow in a situation that threatens to present the Kremlin with another Ukraine-type crisis.
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Police have raided Georgian businesses  in Moscow after Russia cut transport links with its southern  neighbor, escalating a crisis between the two states.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Sept. 28 -- Russia recalled its ambassador to Georgia on Thursday and warned that it would use "all means available to us" to secure the release of Russian military intelligence officers arrested here Wednesday on charges of espionage.
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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 Russian officers charged with spying in Georgia will be handed over to OSCE officials, a spokesman says.
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Russia deported a planeload of Georgians accused of immigration offences on Friday, the latest retaliation by Moscow intended to bring its small southern neighbor to heel.
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Russia took its first significant retaliatory steps after GeorgiaÂs arrests of four Russian military officers.
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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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Russia raised the stakes in a spying row with Georgia on Saturday by suspending a scheduled pull-out of its troops from the former Soviet state.
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The Russian authorities say they plan to limit the number of foreign migrants allowed in for work.
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Georgia's main opposition leader says the authorities are preparing to rig Saturday's presidential election.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 16 -- Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers said.
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Four Russian army officers arrested in Georgia for spying were allowed to fly home on Monday as Tbilisi tried to defuse the worst crisis in years between the ex-Soviet neighbours.
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Russia says sending 2,000 police to secure breakaway country's independence would be in breach of international law
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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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Russia on Friday deported a planeload of Georgians it said were in the country illegally but Tbilisi said the Kremlin had now added a soft form of "ethnic cleansing" to its sanctions against its pro-Western neighbor.