FE/RL: Georgia: Minister Heads To Moscow Amid Fresh Spying Charges
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posted by FerrasB on May, 2008 as Imperialism
Friday, May 16, 2008 Georgia: Minister Heads To Moscow Amid Fresh Spying Charges By Okropir Rukhadze and Eka Tsamalashvili Georgia -- Abkhazian Soldiers Engage In Tank Exercise -- 14May2008 Abkhazian soldiers take part in a tank exercise in Ochamchyra, east from Sukhumi, on May 14 (AFP) The never-easy relations between Russia and Georgia have suffered a fresh blow, with Russian media reporting that federal security services have detained a Georgian-born Russian citizen on charges of spying for Georgia and engaging in terrorist activities in the North Caucasus. The charges -- which Shota Khizanishvili, the chief of staff of Georgia's Interior Ministry, has dismissed as "primitive provocation" -- echo Georgia's 2006 expulsion of four Russian military intelligence officers accused of spying, and come amid already heightened tensions over Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. Moscow has moved in recent weeks to increase the number of Russian peacekeepers it has based in Abkhazia, which Georgia considers an integral part of its ... >> full
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TimesRecordNews: Tensions Escalate Between Russia, Georgia On Spy Report
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Times Record News - Printer-friendly story Tensions escalate between Russia, Georgia on spy report By Steve Gutterman Friday, May 16, 2008 MOSCOW (AP) _ Tensions between Russia and Georgia rose again Friday as Russia's security service reportedly claimed to have uncovered a spy recruited by Georgia to aid insurgents in Russia's south. Georgia angrily denied the allegation. The claim — cast as evidence that Georgia backs terrorists in Russia — came with relations severely strained by Georgia's drive for NATO membership and Moscow's support for separatists in the former Soviet republic. The tension, centered lately on the breakaway Abkhazia region, has led to fears of military conflict between Russia and Georgia, whose location on a key oil export route makes it a focus of contention between Moscow and the West. Successive bomb blasts in another Georgia separatist region, South Ossetia, underscored tension there. The Russian espionage allegations added a new dimension to long-standing Russian claims that insurgents in the ... >> full
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Agency Caucasus: Bagapsh's Visit To Moscow Shadowed
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Sukhum - President Sergei Bagapsh of Abkhazia's trip on May 20 to Moscow, capital of Russia, to make his first official contact with the newly appointed administration of Russia was cast a shadow over by a claim of Russian daily Kommersant that Bagapsh will have negotiations with Russian officials over a peace agreement with Georgia. <O:P></O:P> Sergei Shamba, Foreign Minister of Abkhazia, rejected Kommersant's claim and said with stress that Bagapsh would be in Russia to have meetings with Russian officials over what to do to improve the relations between his country and Russia. Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia, ordered that the Russian administration should make efforts to improve its relations with Abkhazia while he was holding his position as President.<O:P></O:P> Shamba also said that Bagapsh would meet with Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia, to discuss how to establish 'institutional' relations between the two countries. "The president will only be ... >> full
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Agency Caucasus: Bagapsh's Visit To Moscow Shadowed
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Sukhum - President Sergei Bagapsh of Abkhazia's trip on May 20 to Moscow, capital of Russia, to make his first official contact with the newly appointed administration of Russia was cast a shadow over by a claim of Russian daily Kommersant that Bagapsh will have negotiations with Russian officials over a peace agreement with Georgia. Sergei Shamba, Foreign Minister of Abkhazia, rejected Kommersant's claim and said with stress that Bagapsh would be in Russia to have meetings with Russian officials over what to do to improve the relations between his country and Russia. Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia, ordered that the Russian administration should make efforts to improve its relations with Abkhazia while he was holding his position as President. Shamba also said that Bagapsh would meet with Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia, to discuss how to establish 'institutional' relations between the two countries. "The president will only be in ... >> full
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KC: Canada Accuses Russia Of Annexing The Arctic For Oil Reserves
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Canada accuses Russia of annexing the Arctic for oil reserves Publication time: 20 May 2008, 09:35 The battle for "ownership" of the polar oil reserves has accelerated with the disclosure that Russia has sent a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers into the Arctic, The Daily Telegraph reports. It has reinforced fears of Canada that Moscow intends to annex "unlawfully" a vast portion of the ice-covered Arctic, beneath which scientists believe up to 10 billion tons of gas and oil could be buried. Canada has already doubled its funding for works to study and map the Arctic seabed, in such a way as to reinforce their rights to these territories. Russian ambition for control of the Arctic has provoked Canada to double (£20.5 million) its funding for work to map the Arctic seabed in support its claim over the territory. The Russian icebreakers have been patrolling huge areas of the frozen ocean for months in a row, cutting ... >> full
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