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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Russia threw up a blockade against  Georgia on Monday after Tbilisi's release of four Russian  soldiers accused of spying failed to defuse the worst crisis in  years between the ex-Soviet neighbors.
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The Caucasian republic of Georgia protested angrily at what it saw as a veiled threat of action by its neighbour Russia over the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, now virtually a Russian protectorate.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN, the Russian President, yesterday poured scorn on the US legal system when he defended the takeover of Yuganskneftegaz, the Yukos oil production
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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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President Vladimir Putin took a war of words with London to new heights Tuesday, angrily dismissing British demands for the extradition of the sole suspect in the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko as a relic of British "colonial thinking."
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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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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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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a scathing attack on the West on Thursday, accusing Washington of imperialism and of starting a new arms race.
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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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Georgia opens fire on an aircraft believed to be Russian after it violates its airspace, officials say.
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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, Yukos Oil Co., and the issue of democracy within Russia.
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President Vladimir V. Putin vented his anger at the killers and at critics who call for a moderate response.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on August 18 that his scheduled visit to Georgia would be inappropriate amid increased tensions in Georgia&#39;s breakaway South Ossetia.
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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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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.