Tbilisi Claims Russian Troop Movements in Response to Spy Dispute

The espionage dispute between Georgia and Russia intensified September 29, with a statement from the Georgian Interior Ministry that Russian military "movements" had begun in territory bordering Georgia, and accusations from Moscow that the arrest of four Russian officers is part of a scheme to advance Georgia’s ambitions to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Preliminary hearings for the four Russian officers in Georgian custody have been held, while an evacuation of the families of Russian diplomats from Tbilisi has begun.

The Georgian Interior Ministry claimed that the government had detected signs of movement among Russian forces near the Georgian border, and preparations for "large-scale navy maneuvers in the Black Sea."

"Russia’s 58th Army, which is deployed in North Ossetia, is being mobilized and there is information that [the Army] is moving in [the] direction of Georgia," Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili told a news conference late September 28, according to a bulletin posted on the online news site Civil Georgia. "In addition, certain movements are being noticed on the Russian military base in Akhalkalaki [in southern Georgia]. I cannot understand why Russia needs [these] moves."

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Putin Orders 10 Military Divisions to 'Full Alert' As US Backed Crisis with Georgia Escalates Towards War By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

The world has taken yet another ominous turn today as President Putin has ordered 10 Military Divisions to 'Full Alert' status as the American backed puppet-state of Georgia has begun a series of highly provocative actions designed to inflame Russia, and as a number of FSB reports state are in retaliation for the Kremlins revocation of oil rights to a number of Western oil giants.

The Speaker of the Russian Federation Council, Sergey Mironov, has further echoed the urgency of this crisis by stating that the actions of Georgia are leading to war.

Russia has also called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council, and as we can read as reported by the Times On Line News Service, and which says: "Russia told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council last night that the arrest in Georgia of five Russian officers and other actions were unacceptable and dangerous provocations, and asked members to demand that the country exercise restraint and refrain from actions that could threaten peace in the region."

As Russian peacekeepers in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia are now reporting that Georgian combat aircraft are now over flying the region, President Putin has ordered the evacuation of Russian diplomatic families from Georgia and recalled the Russian Ambassador.

In a move that will surely provoke even more anger in the Western Nations against Russia, the Kremlin is calling for the Shell oil giant to pay penalties of over $50 billion, and as we can read as reported by Independent News Service, and as we can read, "Shell is facing growing uncertainty over the future of its Russian Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project after a senior official yesterday called for construction work to be halted over "barbaric" damage to the environment which he claimed it would cost $50bn (£27bn) to put right.

The Kremlin has also set its sights on BP's Russian venture, TNK-BP, with a director of the state-controlled Gazprom saying

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