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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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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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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Exasperated Georgians crowded at the capital's airport in disbelief Tuesday 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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Russia prepared to deport about 130  Georgian "illegal immigrants" on Friday, stepping up a vigorous  campaign by Moscow to bring its southern neighbor to heel,  Russian agencies reported.
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Georgian Defense Minister Georgi Baramidze said in Tbilsi that a Russian aircraft crossed into the Georgian region of Shatili on 19 September, near the border with Chechnya.
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NAZRAN, Russia  - Russian forces detained two Muslim men in the southern republic of Ingushetia in connection with the August bombing of a train between Moscow and St. Petersburg, an interior ministry source said on Wednesday.
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Russia observed a day of mourning on Thursday for the 89 people killed when two Russian passenger jets crashed almost simultaneously hundreds of kilometres apart after taking off from the same Moscow airport, raising new fears of terrorist attacks.
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Russia on Tuesday suspended all transport and postal links with Georgia until further notice, in a sharp escalation of the dispute between Moscow and its small southern neighbor.
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Three Georgian servicemen of the internal troops, detained by the South Ossetian militias early in July, were released by the authorities in breakaway South Ossetia late on August 18.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- All Georgian troops have withdrawn from the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone following a week-long battle between the two sides, Georgian Defense Minister Giorgi Baramidze said on Friday.
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South Ossetia has been a de-facto independent region of Georgia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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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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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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A pro-Russian breakaway region in  Georgia said on Saturday it believed a Georgian plane crashed  over its territory this week and dismissed Georgia&#39;s accusation  that a Russian aircraft had violated its airspace.
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Georgia on Monday said it would hand over four Russian army officers arrested on spying charges to European mediators in a decision that will help defuse a crisis with Russia.
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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.