* Latest accusation of Russian meddling since 2008 war
* Six blasts between September and November, 1 killed
TBILISI, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Georgia accused the Russian military on Tuesday of being behind a series of bomb blasts in the former Soviet republic and said it had arrested six people.
Georgia has often accused Russia of meddling in its affairs since the two countires fought a five-day war in 2008 over Georgia's breakaway pro-Russian region of South Ossetia.
Georgia's Interior Ministry said police had arrested six Georgians over the weekend and that two others were wanted.
It said they were recruited in the rebel Black Sea region of Abkhazia by a Russian military officer to carry out six explosions, the latest of which, on Nov. 28, killed one person near the premises of an opposition party.
The first blast occurred on Sept. 22 in the vicinity of the United States embassy in the capital, Tbilisi.
Of the suspected ringleader, deputy Interior Minister Eka Zguladze told a news conference: "This person agreed to work for them (the Russian military) under threat to his family" in a Georgian populated region of Russian-backed Abkhazia.
Early last month, Georgia said it had dismantled a Russian spy ring, arresting four Russian citizens and nine Georgians.
Moscow dismissed the case as a "fabrication", saying the pro-Western government of President Mikheil Saakashvili suffered from "chronic spy mania".
Relations between the two remain tense since their 2008 war, when Russia crushed an assault by Georgia's U.S.-trained military on South Ossetia, launched after deadly skirmishes with separatists and months of Russian baiting.
(Reporting by Margarita Antidze; Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Maria Golovnina)
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