Georgia offers S Ossetia pull-out
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Georgia offers a partial troop withdrawal from South Ossetia after heavy fighting with separatist rebels.
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Following is a selection of comments on the school siege in North Ossetia, where Russian soldiers have battled Chechen separatists to end the two-day standoff.
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Georgian and South Ossetian forces overnight accused each other of trying to storm the other side's positions in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, as four Georgian soldiers were reported to be wounded.
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Georgian forces have seized strategic heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such victories to fulfil a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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One Georgian soldier was killed and three were wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, Georgian Interior Minister Irakli Okruashvili told Rustavi 2 television.
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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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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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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.
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Tbilisi/Brussels, 18 August 2004: Tbilisi&#39;s latest round of violent brinksmanship with South Ossetia may well not end as peacefully and successfully as it did with Ajara in May 2004.
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TBILISI, Georgia The separatist conflicts in Georgia resulted from the &quot;foolish&quot; move by Georgia to strip South Ossetia and Abkhazia of their autonomous status during the Soviet collapse, President Vladimir Putin of Russia was quoted as saying on ...
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Georgia said on Friday its troops had withdrawn after seizing strategic ground in a rebel territory, in a move sure to be welcomed by Washington alarmed at a drift toward war in an economically vital region.
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BEIJING, Aug.21 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Georgia and its South Ossetia region to renounce violence and settle their standoff through talks.
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Four Russian army officers arrested in Georgia for spying were allowed to fly home on Monday as Tbilisi tried to defuse the worst crisis in years between the ex-Soviet neighbours.
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In its statement issued on August 20 Russian Foreign Ministry welcomed Georgia&#39;s decision to pull out its extra troops from the South Ossetian conflict zone.
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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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Georgia threatens to block Russia's membership of the WTO in a dispute over links between the two nations.
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Heavy shelling again rocks Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, delivering a fresh blow to peace efforts.