Russia may revise Georgia troops plan
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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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Russia said Saturday that it has suspended plans for further withdrawal of its troops from Georgia amid worsening relations between the two neighbors.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili  has dismissed sharp words by Russian President Vladimir Putin,  saying Moscow was unlikely to use force to free four Russian  officers whose arrest for spying has sparked a crisis.
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A top Chechen official warns his forces may enter Georgia to eliminate alleged Chechen militants.
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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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Georgia opens fire on an aircraft believed to be Russian after it violates its airspace, officials say.
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Georgia has begun pulling its troops out of the conflict zone in South Ossetia and plans to hand over its control to a joint pace keeping force.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, concluding a visit to the Balkan region Friday, voiced concern to his Russian counterpart about growing tensions between Moscow and Georgia.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 4 -- Tension between Russia and Georgia, never far from the surface, flared anew Monday after a helicopter carrying the Georgian defense minister was shot at by separatists in a breakaway enclave supported by Russia.
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Washington is trying to gauge whether Russia's recent bomber mission near a U.S. aircraft carrier indicated Moscow's return to a Cold War "mind-set" and is considering how the Pentagon should respond, a senior U.S. military officer said on Tuesday.
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The sharp deterioration of the situations in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transdniestria are the direct outcome of the attempts by Tbilisi and Chisinau to resolve the conflicts by the use of force, says a joint ...
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Last week, Georgia fired at an intruding Russian fighter, it claimed. The incident is the latest in a murky air war that both sides say is an intentional effort to spoil ties.
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TSKHINVALI. Aug 20 (Interfax) - Russian peacekeepers deployed in South Ossetia plan to collect weapons from militia units in Ossetian and Georgian villages in the self-proclaimed republic.
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MOSCOW - Russia's military yesterday waved aside as nothing new a fresh US proposal for a plan to station part of a missile defense shield in eastern Europe.
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Georgia offers a partial troop withdrawal from South Ossetia after heavy fighting with separatist rebels.
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld briefed his Russian counterpart over the weekend on U.S. plans to shift its forces stationed around the globe, in some cases potentially bringing them closer to Russia's borders...
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Georgia is to set up checkpoints in a key gorge in the rebel Abkhazia region, following clashes.