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...CHARGED. Colonel Alexander Sava, Russian army officer, along with three other officers; with espionage, by Georgian authorities; in Tbilisi. Georgia's Interior Minister accused the men of spying on the country's military, and claimed they were planning a "serious provocation." Russia called the charges unfounded and recalled its ambassador in protest. Relations between Moscow and Tbilisi have steadily worsened since the 2004 election of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has pledged to move the country toward the West...
...Though it's careful not to annoy Russia - ever a major and jealous presence and a key market - Kazakhstan nevertheless had a pipeline built, allowing transport of its oil directly to China. To Russia's chagrin, it also joined the U.S.-sponsored Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline that breaks Russia's long-standing monopoly on delivering Caspian Sea oil to world markets, though the pipeline does not cross its own territory. The plan was to lay an additional pipe across the Caspian seabed to Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, but Russia protested, citing potential ecological damage. So Kazakhstan ships oil there...
...World Trade Organization this year. Though it's careful not to annoy Russia - ever a major and jealous presence and a key market - Kazakhstan nevertheless had a pipeline built, allowing transport of its oil directly to China. To Russia's chagrin, it also joined the U.S.-sponsored Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline that breaks Russia's long-standing monopoly on delivering Caspian Sea oil to world markets, though the pipeline does not cross its own territory. The plan was to lay an additional pipe across the Caspian seabed to Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, but Russia protested, citing potential ecological damage...
...Russians have barred William Browder, a leading Western investor in Russia who has been a big critic of Russian corporate practices, from re-entering the country, after he was denied entry last November without explanation. And just last month, Russian officials refused to participate in a meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia, sponsored by the International Energy Agency (iea), which discussed diversifying energy sources, and put pressure on other delegates from Western Europe not to participate either, or at least not to say anything that might offend Russia. "People were jittery," according to one person who attended. Resources Behavior like that does...
...SENTENCED. VLADIMIR ARUTYUNIAN, 27, to life in prison for the attempted assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili; in Tbilisi, Georgia. Arutyunian, a Georgian citizen of Armenian descent, hurled a live hand grenade at the two leaders during a rally last May, but it fell short and failed to detonate. Arutyunian later killed a policeman in a shootout during his arrest. He was shown on television admitting that he threw the grenade, but his lawyer said he will appeal the sentence...