UPDATE: Back to the USSR... Back to the CCCP .... Back to the Way it Used to be ....

http://uk.reuters.com/article/gc07/idUKTRE5452M920090506

The real conflict as NATO holds military exercises in Georgia is an increasingly tense battle of wills between the Western defense alliance and Moscow that could affect efforts to improve U.S.-Russian relations.

Ties between the former Cold war foes have soured over the exercises and an espionage case in which NATO has expelled two Russians and Moscow has thrown out two alliance officials. Russia has also pulled out of a meeting scheduled with NATO.