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Article: Russia-Georgia dispute escalates.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 27, 2007
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Byline: Fred Weir Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
MOSCOW -- Just as relations between Russia and the post-Soviet nation of Georgia were improving from their nadir last year, a bizarre phantom air war this month has unleashed mutually hostile rhetoric and escalated tensions.
For almost a month, Georgia has complained that Russian fighter jets have made incursions into its airspace. Most recently, it said that its forces fired on an intruding Russian plane near the breakaway republic of Abkhazia last week. The republic, a Russian protectorate claimed by Georgia under international law, is a point of contention between the two countries.
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