Raulken co.UK - Nato kicks off Georgia exercises

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60? "60px": "auto" ); height:expression(do*****ent.body.clientHeight > 60? "60px": "auto" );' onload=this.style.filter='progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=#000000,direction=135,strength=5)'>A series of Nato military exercises has begun in Georgia, amid angry condemnation from Russia. Soldiers from 18 countries are taking part in the drills at a Georgian army base close to the capital, Tbilisi. Russia, which fought a war against Georgia last year, has condemned the exercises, which President Dmitry Medvedev called "an overt provocation". On Tuesday Georgia put down a mutiny by soldiers, and claimed it had uncovered a Russian-backed coup plot. 'Misinterpreted' More than 1,000 soldiers will take part in the Nato exercises over a period of more than three weeks. They are taking place close to areas where Russian troops are stationed in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia. Georgia's defence ministry said Nato would spend the next few days setting up a staff headquarters at the Vaziani base outside the capital Tbilisi. The first exercise, running until 19 May, is described as a "command post" exercise focusing on co-ordinating Nato procedures in a crisis-response situation. Then a second, larger, exercise, based on peacekeeping training, will run till 3 June. Nato has denied the exercises are aimed at Russia or the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. "Georgia is just hosting the exercise and nobody should interpret the exercise in a different way and...
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