Russia Calls NATO Plans for Military Exercises in Georgia “Absurd and a Provocation”

NATO’s planned military exercises next month in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has angered Russia who has requested the plans to be scrapped, calling them “absurd and a provocation.”

Russia was involved in a bitter conflict with Georgia last year after trouble broke in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. NATO has said the planned military exercises had been scheduled prior to the conflict yet Russia has called the actions a threat to its security.

The NATO exercises are scheduled to take place just east of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi from May 6 to June1 and while it is intended to be “non-aggressive” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, “To hold military exercises in a country where a war has just ended is impossible.”

Russia has accused Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili of attempting to use the NATO exercises as a way to gain support in the country. Saakashvili has been heavily criticized in Georgia for his mishandling of the crisis with Russia and recent protests have signaled a possible end to his time as the country’s leader.

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