Georgia has recalled its Russia warns Georgia over troop detention ...
Russia stokes tense Caucasus with troop build-up ... ambassador from Moscow after Russia said it had sent fighter jets into its neighbour's airspace.
The recall happened just hours after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, for talks with President Mikheil Saakashvili. Moscow said the it sent the fighter sorties over the Georgian territory of South Ossetia to prevent a Georgian attack on separatists there. Russia and Georgia have been at odds over the two regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Rice urged Moscow to work to ease tensions in the regions, not add to them. She said, however, that all sides must put a stop to violence in the breakaway regions.
(Deutsche Welle)
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