Russia escalates row with Georgia over spy charges
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Russia recalled its ambassador from  neighboring Georgia on Thursday and ordered the evacuation of  some of its officials, escalating a crisis sparked by the  detention of four Russian army officers on spying charges.
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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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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 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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Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili accuses Russia of leading "terror" missions on his country's territory.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has increased pressure on ethnic Georgians living in Moscow, ordering schools to compile lists of children with Georgian surnames to detect illegal migrants and deporting more than 100 people, officials said yesterday.
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Tension persisted in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, where the outgoing president Saturday accused the opposition candidate in last month's disputed presidential election of attempting a coup after his supporters occupied the government compound.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 2 -- Georgia handed over four Russian military officers it arrested last week on espionage charges to an international mediator Monday, in a move to defuse tension with Russia that has been escalating since the men's detention five days ago.
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President Putin warns Georgia not to use "blackmail" against Russia amid a bitter spying row.
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Russia has launched its own investigation into the Alexander Litvinenko affair.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on August 18 that his scheduled visit to Georgia would be inappropriate amid increased tensions in Georgia&#39;s breakaway South Ossetia.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Sept. 29 -- A Georgian court on Friday ordered four Russian military intelligence officers to be held for two months on espionage charges in a pretrial detention center, a decision that could prolong and deepen the heated dispute over alleged spying here.
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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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Four Russian officers detained in Georgia are charged with spying, officials in Tbilisi say.
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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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Russian leader Vladimir Putin says Georgia's arrest of four Russian officers for spying is "state terror".
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Russian authorities charge a man with spying for Britain - the latest step in an espionage row between the two countries.