The military exercises in the Caucasus will be the largest to take place since the fall of the Soviet Union, with 8,500 troops participating.  ‘They involve an unprecedented number of servicemen and the newest military hardware of Russia’, says Georgia’s deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov.  Tbilisi has described the exercises as ‘pure provocation’.  RFE/RL looks at how Russia’s heavy-handed tactics in the North Caucasus have only spurred on insurgent movements, rather than eradicating them.  Will the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, be called in to take on the whole region?