Russia escalates row with Georgia over spy charges
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Russia recalled its ambassador from  neighboring Georgia on Thursday and ordered the evacuation of  some of its officials, escalating a crisis sparked by the  detention of four Russian army officers on spying charges.
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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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Russia is expelling four British diplomats in retaliation for a similar move by Britain, news agencies reported Thursday, as the dispute between Moscow and London over the case of poisoned KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko escalated.
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Russia recalled its ambassador from   neighboring Georgia on Thursday and ordered the evacuation of   some of its officials, escalating a crisis sparked by the   detention of four Russian army officers on spying charges.
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The European Union called on Russia on Tuesday to lift economic sanctions on Georgia or risk deepening the crisis between the ex-Soviet neighbors sparked by a spying row.
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Russia began pulling out some of its   officials from Georgia on Friday as the crisis mounted between   the two former Soviet states over spying charges.
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Russia began pulling out some of its  diplomats and their families from Georgia on Friday as the  small ex-Soviet state pressed spying charges against a group of  Russian army officers.
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President Putin warns Georgia not to use "blackmail" against Russia amid a bitter spying and sanctions row.
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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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Georgia opens fire on an aircraft believed to be Russian after it violates its airspace, officials say.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 2 -- Georgia handed over four Russian military officers it arrested last week on espionage charges to an international mediator Monday, in a move to defuse tension with Russia that has been escalating since the men's detention five days ago.
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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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New tensions emerge on Georgia's border with Azerbaijan over claims of smuggling and a rail dispute.
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Russia suspends the withdrawal of its forces from Georgia, as tensions between the two countries escalate.
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Russia expelled four British diplomats Thursday in an escalating conflict, but President Vladimir Putin sought to calm what he called a "mini-crisis" over his refusal to extradite a suspect in the murder of a Kremlin critic in London.
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Russia accuses UK of seeking confrontation over Litvinenko case, but stops short of immediate tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats.
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Russian president stokes diplomatic row over murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.