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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. Today he's a journalist with 大象传媒 Russian, but then he was an ambitious young newspaper journalist, and managed to catch a ride with some friends to the heart of the fighting.

Image: a destroyed building in South Ossetia in August 2008
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