Russia in 'spy' row with Georgia
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Russia demands the immediate release of four of its army officers held in Georgia on spying charges.
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NATO defense ministers faced a tense meeting with their Russian counterpart Friday after the Western alliance angered Moscow by agreeing to deepen cooperation with Georgia.
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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Russia's newly returned ambassador to Georgia met with the foreign minister on Tuesday, as the two countries moved to improve ties badly strained when Georgia briefly detained four Russian military officers it accused of spying.
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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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Georgia on Monday released four Russian officers whose arrest on spying charges prompted Moscow to announce sweeping travel and communications sanctions in the worst bilateral crisis in years.
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The Caucasian republic of Georgia protested angrily at what it saw as a veiled threat of action by its neighbour Russia over the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, now virtually a Russian protectorate.
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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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Russia started pulling out some of its   diplomats, military staff 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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The EU calls on Russia to lift economic sanctions it imposed on Georgia amid a bitter spying row.
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Russia has deported a planeload of Georgians, in an escalating row with the Caucasus republic.
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The United States and Russia clashed at a European security forum Tuesday over the election monitoring that exposed fraud in Ukraine's election last month, elevating an increasingly tense debate over democracy in former Soviet republics.
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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 accused the Russian military of   aiding South Ossetian rebels who shot at a helicopter carrying   the Georgian defense minister on Sunday and forced it to land.
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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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Tension between Russia and Georgia has escalated dramatically following recent clashes between Georgia and two pro-Russia breakaway regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Four Russian officers detained in Georgia are charged with spying, officials in Tbilisi say.