Russia pours cash into Georgia rebel region
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TSKHINVALI, Georgia  - Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region says it wants to be part of Russia. If its finances are any guide, it already is.
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Georgian authorities on Monday handed over four Russian army officers accused of spying to mediators from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a Reuters reporter at the scene said.
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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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MOSCOW (CP) - War clouds are gathering over the former Soviet Caucasus region as Georgia&#39;s US-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili moves to re-unite his fractured nation by pressuring two separatist provinces that have close ties to Russia.
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MOSCOW  - Russia's top general threatened Wednesday to strike terrorists "in any region of the world," and the Kremlin offered a reward equivalent to &#36;13.3 million Cdn for information leading to the killing or capture of Chechnya's top rebel leaders.
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Chechen rebels, in a swift reply to a Russian bounty offer for their leaders, promised on Thursday to give &#36;20 million to anyone helping them to capture President Vladimir Putin.
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Georgia's president claimed Thursday that his troops established control over a rebellious region after three days of clashes, but the defiant local leader targeted in the armed operation escaped.
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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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Russia will pay 300m roubles ($10 m) for information leading to the arrest of Chechen rebel leaders Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev.
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Georgia is to set up checkpoints in a key gorge in the rebel Abkhazia region, following clashes.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Georgia released four Russian officers whose arrests on spying charges have angered its giant northern neighbor, but Russia pushed ahead yesterday with punitive sanctions aimed at dealing a painful blow to the economically struggling Caucasus nation.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Russia warned yesterday that its plans to close military bases in Georgia were in doubt, and Georgia said Russia was moving troops near their shared border, as relations between the countries deteriorated in one of their worst crises since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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MOSCOW - A top Russian general said today that Russia has completed withdrawal of troops that had been based in Georgia since the Soviet collapse, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. The presence of Russian troops in the former Soviet republic was one of the longtime irritants between Georgia and its neighbor. "There are no more Russian troops in Georgia; ...
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Rebel forces from Georgia's breakaway   region of South Ossetia shot at a Georgian military helicopter   and forced it to make an emergency landing on Sunday, a   Georgian military commander said.
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Chechen rebels, in a swift reply to a  Russian bounty offer for their leaders, promised on Thursday to  give $20 million to anyone helping them to capture President  Vladimir Putin.
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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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Georgian Defense Minister Georgi Baramidze said in Tbilsi that a Russian aircraft crossed into the Georgian region of Shatili on 19 September, near the border with Chechnya.