Putin calls for Georgia pressure
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin urges international pressure on Georgia, as tensions continue to escalate.
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Georgia threatens to block Russia's membership of the WTO in a dispute over links between the two nations.
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President Vladimir Putin warned Georgia not to provoke or blackmail Russia on Wednesday as Moscow ignored international appeals to drop economic sanctions against its southern neighbor.
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Moscow: President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia&#39;s regions Monday and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus as he appointed a new government chief of staff after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is ready to contribute to a settlement of conflict between Georgia and its separatist province of South Ossetia.
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TBILISI, Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili said his forces seized strategic heights after fighting in the rebel South Ossetia region Thursday and promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his country.
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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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SOCHI, August 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the Chechen leadership to pay unflagging attention to paying compensations for lost housing.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed hope on August 20, that the Georgian and South Ossetian sides will show political will and follow undertaken commitments over ceasefire.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili offered on Monday to patch up differences with Russia. "Nobody wants to alienate Russia," he said.
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MOSCOW : Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a &quot;radical renewal&quot; of government structures and operations in the north Caucasus in order to fight terror.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 1 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the Georgian government of "state terrorism with hostage-taking" in a blistering attack Sunday that followed the arrests on espionage charges last week of four Russian military officers in Georgia.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that opposition groups should have more outlets for expressing their views.
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An escalating confrontation between Georgia and Russia and the Russian sanctions that accompany it are threatening GeorgiaÂs economy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday criticized international economic institutions for protecting the interests of a select few developed countries and called for a new global economic order that would give rapidly growing developing economies a bigger role.
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Russia warned on Friday that its plans to close military bases in Georgia were in doubt and Georgia claimed 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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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.