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Under Fire in South Ossetia
A Georgian journalist remembers his first experience of conflict reporting.
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 麻豆社 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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