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News August 11, 2008, 3:25

Georgia vs. South Ossetia: roots of a 100-year conflict

Georgia and its breakaway republic of South Ossetia have always had an uneasy relationship. The current armed conflict has its roots in a dispute that goes back almost one hundred years.