New life springs from Tskhinvali ruins
Published: 15 August, 2008, 19:58
A young Ossetian mother had to make a troubled exodus from shelled Tskhinvali to Russia to give birth to her baby. Ironically it was a Georgian doctor who helped her to deliver. Larisa Alburova spent two days in a basement, approaching her full term of pr
She had to flee to North Ossetia to deliver the baby.
On her way to Russia her car came under attack by rocket grenades, and she was one of the two survivors and had to hide in the ditch till the morning until a truck carried her to Vladikavkaz.
All this a day before she was due to give birth.
15.08.2008, 17:10
Ordinary Americans critical of one-sided mediaThe conflict may be over, but not the war of words. Moscow claims some Western newspapers have taken a one-sided view of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict and have been misleading their readers. |
15.08.2008, 21:44
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Ossetians collect evidence of Georgian ‘genocide’South Ossetian residents and local journalists have launched their own investigation into claims of genocide perpetrated by Georgian soldiers. They accuse Georgians of attempting to destroy Ossetian graves and memorials to locals killed in earlier conflic |
