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World Service,10 Aug 2018,13 mins

Under Fire in South Ossetia

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Ten years ago, conflict broke out between Georgia and Russia over the break-away region of South Ossetia, with the first shells falling on the capital Tskhinvali on 7th August. Watching events unfold from the Georgian capital Tbilisi was Temur Kighuradze, now a journalist with BBC Russian, but then an ambitious young newspaper journalist. Image: a destroyed building in South Ossetia in August 2008 Credit: VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images

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