The top Russian security agency, the Federal Security Service, is claiming that its agents caught a Georgian spy, and accused Tbilisi of aiding rebels in the North Caucasus, in an episode likely to heighten tensions between the two former Soviet republics.
The former Russian president Vladimir Putin has been accused of using public money and donated art to decorate the St Petersburg palace he used as a private residence.
Georgia has shown the BBC footage which it says proves Russian troops are deploying heavy military hardware in the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
Austrian bank Raiffeisen International will not make an acquisition in Kazakhstan this year but plans to invest $400 million in neighbouring Russia, its chief executive said on Sunday.