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Levan Dotiashvili after his release from South Ossetia. Image via Netgazeti.

Borderisation

South Ossetia returns captured Georgian national

by Tata Shoshiashvili

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On Thursday, South Ossetia released a Georgian national who was captured after visiting a disputed church near Kirbali earlier this week. Levan Dotiashvili was captured by Russian border guards in South Ossetia on Monday night. He was accompanied by Tamaz Papitashvili and Tamaz Ginturi. Ginturi died after being wounded by Russian border guard gunfire, while Papitashvili had left before the incident took place. [Read on OC Media: Russian troops fatally shoot Georgian in South Ossetia] Ini

Georgian activists paid tribute today in Tbilisi to three Georgian civilians killed in South Ossetia and Abkhazia since the 2008 war. OC Media/Shota Kincha.

Borderisation

Russian troops fatally shoot Georgian in South Ossetia

by Shota Kincha

•3 min read

A Georgian man has been shot dead and another captured by Russian border guards in South Ossetia, reportedly while trying to reach a disputed church. On Monday night, Russian border guards stationed in South Ossetia shot and killed Tamaz Ginturi, and arrested Levan Dotiashvili, close to Kirbali, a Georgian-controlled village which borders the Leningorsky district in South Ossetia. Giorgi Doluashvili, a relative of Ginturi’s, told RFE/RL that Ginturi and Dotiashvili had been going to a nearby

Borderisation

South Ossetia tensions rise as Georgia sets up new police checkpoint

by OC Media

•4 min read

A heated meeting between Georgian and South Ossetian officials has ended without results after Georgian police set up a new police checkpoint near the border. The meeting came at a time of increased tension following the erection by Russian troops of new fences along the disputed South Ossetian border. On 27 August, South Ossetia’s State Security Committee (KGB) accused Georgian police of erecting a new police checkpoint near the village of Tsnelisi (Uista). Tsnelisi is almost entirely

2008 August War

New ‘borderisation’ in South Ossetia cuts off property of two Georgian families

by OC Media

•4 min read

The property and land of two Georgian families have been cut off from Georgian government-controlled territory in the village of Gugutiantkari, near South Ossetia, after Russian border guards set up new fences on 7 August. On the night of 7 August, government buildings across Georgia lowered their flags to half-mast to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the 2008 August War, which resulted in Georgia losing control over all of South Ossetia. The new fences cut through the land of two fam