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Surrounded by flickering candles and flanked by armored personnel carriers, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led a requiem concert Thursday for South Ossetia’s war dead in the breakaway region’s devastated capital.
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Russia and key Western nations remained at odds Thursday over a U.N. resolution aimed at bringing peace to Georgia, with the U.S., France and Britain insisting on...
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Russian forces lingered deep in Georgia on Thursday, digging trenches and setting up mortars a day before Kremlin officials promised to complete a troop withdrawal from...
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Doubts surfaced over the future of military cooperation between NATO and Russia on Wednesday after Norway said Moscow had informed it of a decision to freeze all joint...
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Russian forces dug trenches and built fortifications in key areas of Georgia Thursday, but also rolled columns of tanks north toward home, picking and choosing how...
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Oil prices shot up more than $5 a barrel Thursday, rising to the highest level in over two weeks as escalating tensions with Russia stoked fears of a disruption of...
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Russia has halted all military cooperation with NATO, the Western alliance said Thursday, in the latest sign of East-West tension over the invasion of Georgia.
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Jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky told a Siberian court at the start of his parole hearing Thursday that he does not plan to return to the oil industry, where...
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Oil prices shot up $6 a barrel Thursday, rising to the highest level in two weeks as escalating tensions with Russia stoked fears of a disruption of energy shipments to...
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Diana Taurasi had 21 points and the U.S. women’s basketball team beat Russia 67-52 Thursday to advance to their fourth straight Olympic gold medal game.
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Oil prices jumped above $119 Thursday as rising antagonism with Russia underscored the possibility it could affect energy shipments from the world’s...
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Andrey Moiseev of Russia has won the men’s Olympic modern pentathlon, outlasting a pair of Lithuanians during the final run.
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Olga Kaniskina of Russia has won the women’s 20-kilometer race walk gold medal in a dominating start-to-finish performance in wet conditions at the Beijing...
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AP, Warsaw
The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia _ a move followed swiftly by a new warning from...
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Georgia’s president has told The Associated Press he does not believe Russia will fulfill its promise to withdraw from most of the country in the coming days.
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Russia is countering a French push for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia by circulating a competing U.N. Security Council resolution.
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The price of oil fluctuated above $114 a barrel Wednesday, propped up by worries about tropical storms and heightened tension between Russia and the West, but hampered...
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Serbia’s foreign minister said the link is clear _ U.S. and Western support for Kosovo’s secession from Serbia has helped fuel tensions in Georgia’s...
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President Bush says the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are part of Georgia and that the United States will work with allies to insure Georgia’s...
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The chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says that Russia has agreed to a beefed-up monitoring mission for Georgia’s disputed...
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AP, Tbilisi
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili says his country will not give up South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the two breakaway regions at the heart of days of fighting with...
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AP, Moscow
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Russian troops will begin a pullback Monday from Georgia toward that country’s separatist-held region of South Ossetia.
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A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman is denying that troops are withdrawing from South Ossetia, contradicting a general who says some Russian troops are leaving.
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AP, Outside Gori
A Russian army general says troops are withdrawing from South Ossetia, though two state-controlled news agencies are making contradictory reports about a pullout.
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AP, Moscow
Two state-controlled Russian news agencies are sending conflicting reports about whether Russian troops are withdrawing from the separatist-held South Ossetia.
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Russia’s state-controlled ITAR-Tass news agency says that some Russian troops are withdrawing from the separatist-held Georgian region of South Ossetia.
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AP, Tskhinvali
Russian troops and their allies forced Georgian men at gunpoint to clean the streets of South Ossetia’s bombed-out capital Saturday, avenging Georgia’s...
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Bush on Friday accused Russia of “bullying and intimidation” in its harsh military treatment of Georgia, saying the people in...
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I have been following the conflict between Russia and Georgia with a degree of curiosity and concern. To be honest, I do not know who is to blame and what the origins...
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Vinera Chebataryeva, a 70-year-old retired teacher, is one of a dwindling number of people with ethnic Georgian background left in South Ossetia. She said Wednesday she...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an end to military operations against Georgia, the Kremlin says.
He told officials he had decided to end the campaign...
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OUTSIDE GORI, Georgia (AP) _ An Associated Press reporter has seen a convoy of several dozen Russian military trucks and armored vehicles heading out of a key city...
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AP, Tbilisi
Georgia’s Security Council chief says Russians have bombed and looted the city of Gori outside the breakaway province of South Ossetia in violation of the truce.
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LENGTH OF WAR: Six days of fighting in Georgia and two separatist regions, South Ossetia and Abhkazia, from Aug. 7 through Aug. 12 before a cease-fire was declared by...
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticised the United States on Monday, saying it had displayed a cynical Cold War mentality by supporting...
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Russia today called a halt to its military offensive in Georgia - but warned that it could resume operations if it encountered any further resistance by Georgian...
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