With the fighting over, Tanya Lokshina hitches lifts between checkpoints around South Ossetia's wrecked capital Tskhinvali chronicling the grieving and burying, looting and burning, the unexploded ...

Men playing music at polling place in Tskhinvali on November 12 (epa) PRAGUE, November 12, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The voting in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia has ended, with over 90 percent of ...

TSKHINVALI, Georgia_ As Russian troops pounded through Georgia last week, the Kremlin and its allies repeatedly pointed to one justification above all others: The Georgian military had destroyed the ...

On Aug. 21, Columbia Journalism Review published Julia Ioffe's overview of several Russian journalists’ blogging from the war in South Ossetia. Featured in her piece are reports by LJ user krig42 ...

The Russian-backed Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia and Nicaragua signed a so-called agreement on “mutual elimination of visa formalities for holders of diplomatic, official, service and foreign ...

20 September 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Authorities in South Ossetia said today that mortar shells hit the city of Tskhinvali as ceremonies marking the 15th anniversary of the region's de facto independence ...

Despite the occasional crack and pop of small arms fire, a quiet of sorts has finally descended on Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway republic of South Ossetia. On Thursday, bodies still lay in ...

There are no military installations in the city of Tskhinvali. In fact, there are no military targets at all. It is an industrial center consisting of lumber mills, manufacturing plants and ...

The war here cut a swath of destruction, severely damaging many homes and apartment buildings. Gaping holes scar five-story blocks of apartments, the detritus of what was once ordinary life blown onto ...

Link: Tuesday Map: Bombs over Tskhinvali | FP Passport. *Hmmm. According to this satellite map, it looks like somebody rampaged into South Ossetia and blew the living daylights out of the homes of the ...

The FINANCIAL — According to Civil Georgia, talks between Tbilisi and Tskhinvali may take place soon, Temur Iakobashvili, the Georgian state minister for reintegration, said on August 4. He, however, ...