Moscow maintains Georgia blockade
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Russia keeps up a freeze on vital links with Georgia, despite the release of four alleged Russian spies.
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Chess champion Garry Kasparov and allies in Russia's most vocal opposition movement held their latest showdown Monday with President Vladimir Putin's government, keeping up their frequent protests with a demonstration in central Moscow.
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Dozens of ships remain stranded on Russia's key waterway, following an accident several days ago.
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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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BATUMI, Georgia  - Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili shrugged off on Monday Moscow's harsh reaction to the arrest of four Russian army officers for spying, that fueled a crisis in relations between the two ex-Soviet states.
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Georgian opposition leaders vowed on Wednesday to continue a wave of anti-government protests across the Caucasus nation to challenge President Mikhail Saakashvili.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Exasperated Georgians crowded at the capital's airport in disbelief yesterday after Russia cut all travel links with the former Soviet republic in retaliation for detaining four of its military officers for espionage.
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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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TBILISI -- The commander of Russian military forces in Georgia said yesterday his troops had been put on high alert and ordered to use lethal force to defend their bases, amid mounting tensions over the arrest of four Russian military officers accused of spying. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, denounced the Georgian authorities' arrests as ``state terrorism" and blamed unidentified ...
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President Vladimir Putin warned Georgia on Wednesday not to provoke or blackmail Russia as Moscow tightened the screw on its southern neighbor.
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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent
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Russia took its first significant retaliatory steps after GeorgiaÂs arrests of four Russian military officers.
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Georgian authorities detained four Russian military officers on spying charges Wednesday, and security forces surrounded Russia's military headquarters in Tbilisi to demand that another suspect be handed over, the interior minister said.
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Russia and the United States see eye to eye on fighting terrorism, Russia&#39;s defense minister said yesterday, while reiterating that Moscow reserves the right to carry out
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President Vladimir Putin warned Georgia on Wednesday not to cross Russia as Moscow cracked down on Georgian businesses in the city, the latest retaliatory step in a row that has outgrown the spying claims that sparked it.
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BEIJING, December 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is not concerned about the possible lifting of the embargo on the supply of armaments to China from the EU countries, announced Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov at a press conference in Beijing.
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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.