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 ...

Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, who paid a working visit to South Ossetia’s capital Tskhinval earlier this week, said the new treaty when signed would set tasks for the two countries ...

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 ...

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 ...