Russia deports planeload of Georgians
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Russia deported on Friday a planeload of Georgians accused of illegal immigration in its latest blow against its southern neighbor, officials said.
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Georgian forces fired at a plane they  believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus republic&#39;s  airspace on Wednesday, a senior interior ministry official  said.
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Georgia said on Friday its troops had  withdrawn after seizing strategic ground in a rebel territory,  in a move sure to be welcomed by Washington alarmed at a drift  toward war in an economically vital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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The breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia says it has shot down a Georgian helicopter, reports say.
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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 handed over to international mediators four Russian army officers whose arrest on spying charges triggered the worst crisis in years between the ex-Soviet neighbors.
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The Russian government abruptly shifted gears yesterday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week exploded in a terrorist bombing.
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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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Georgian forces fired at an airplane they believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus republic's airspace on Wednesday, a senior interior ministry official said.
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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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The Russian government abruptly shifted gears Friday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week was blown up
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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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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the more than 350 victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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TWO Russian aircraft have left Moscow for Sri Lanka, carrying 25 tonnes of humanitarian aid for victims of the tsunamis that devastated large parts of the country, ITAR-TASS news agency has reported.
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MOSCOW  - Authorities evacuated people Friday from Moscow's Vnukovo airport after the discovery of a device resembling a bomb in a passenger's baggage, police said.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Three Georgian servicemen were killed while five others were wounded in overnight fighting in Georgia&#39;s breakaway province of South Ossetia, Russian news agencies reported, citing Georgian officials.
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Police have raided Georgian businesses in Moscow after Russia cut transport links with its southern neighbor, escalating a crisis between the two states.