It's an hour's drive from the border to South Ossetia's capital Tskhinvali - there is no regular bus service or railway line. An apartment block in Tskhinvali still bears the scars of war Russian ...

which unleashed a four-month blockade of South Ossetia’s capital of Tskhinval by Georgian nationalists. On September 20, 1990, the parliament of South Ossetia proclaimed the establishment of the ...

Spontaneous rally of the residents of South Ossetia in downtown Tskhinval ended ... The increased security measures in the capital remain," he said. Several hundred people gathered in central ...

After the 2008 war, Moscow recognised South Ossetia as an independent state and began a process of closer ties that Georgia views as effective annexation. In Georgia's capital Tbilisi relatives ...