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World Service,4 mins

Under fire in South Ossetia

The Fifth Floor

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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 Credit: VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images

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