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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: NATO-Russia tensions mount as exercises kick off AFP - Thursday, May 7 TBILISI (AFP) - - NATO kicked off controversial military exercises in ex-Soviet Georgia on Wednesday as tensions with Russia heightened over Moscow's expulsion of two alliance diplomats. Launched a day after Georgia accused Russia of backing a brief military mutiny, the exercises have deeply strained ties between the Cold War-era rivals. Russia's foreign ministry said it had expelled two Canadian diplomats working as NATO representatives in Moscow "in response to an unfriendly act by NATO against Russian envoys to NATO." NATO last week expelled two Russian envoys accredited at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels for alleged involvement in a spy scandal, a charge Moscow has furiously denied. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted Russia wanted good relations with NATO and shrugged off the expulsion of the alliance's diplomats. "We were forced to react. Excuse me, but those are the rules ... and our NATO colleagues, at least those who initiated the expulsion of our diplomats, couldn't have expected anything less from us," Lavrov told journalists in Moscow. But Russia's outspoken ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, lashed out at the alliance Wednesday in an interview published in the daily Izvestia. "This organisation is becoming more and more unpredictable.... The alliance can't seem to behave in a respectable, stable and decent way," Rogozin told the newspaper. Russia fiercely objects to its southern neighbour hosting the month-long NATO exercises, which President Dmitry Medvedev has called "an overt provocation." The exercises involve at least 1,100 soldiers from more than a dozen NATO and non-NATO states in command and field exercises. A Georgian defence ministry spokesman responsible for the NATO exercises, Colonel Giorgi Kakiashvili, said they were going forward as planned. "Everything is going ahead according to the schedule. Most of the participants have already arrived," he told AFP. He said participants would gather today for planning meetings and that full-scale command exercises would begin on Monday. The exercises, involving both NATO countries and members of the alliance's Partnership for Peace programme for former Eastern bloc countries, have two components. "Cooperative Longbow", running from Wednesday to May 19, is a "command post" exercise focusing on training and compatibility with NATO procedures in a crisis-response operation. "Cooperative Lancer," from May 21 to June 3, is a larger field exercise providing training for peacekeeping operations. On Tuesday Georgia said it had peacefully put down a mutiny at a military base outside Tbilisi aimed at disrupting the exercises. Georgia initially accused Russia of backing an armed coup -- a claim Moscow described as "insane" -- but later backed away from claims of Russian involvement. The brief uprising in a tank battalion at the Mukhrovani base ended without violence after President Mikheil Saakashvili intervened. At least 20 people have been arrested, including the battalion's commander, and police were hunting for two former military officers and a current officer alleged to have been involved. The mutiny led neighbouring Armenia to pull out of the NATO exercises, but Washington played down its importance, calling the mutiny an "isolated incident." Georgia and Russia fought the five-day war last year over South Ossetia, a Russian-backed breakaway region of Georgia. After the war, Russia recognised South Ossetia and another Georgian rebel region, Abkhazia, as independent states. Both rebel regions said Wednesday they had stepped up security in response to the NATO exercises, with Abkhazia saying it had put its forces on "permanent combat alert." "We do not know the ultimate aims of this exercise," General Anatoly Zaitsev, the chief of the Abkhaz general staff, was quoted as saying by Russia's Interfax news agency. "The situation compels us to step up security... and to be on permanent combat alert," he said. South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity also told Interfax that rebel forces "have stepped up security to prevent Georgian provocations." 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