Tskhinvali, South Ossetia: the anniversary of the August 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict is often a tense occasion. (c) Sergey Ponomarev / AP / Press Association Images ...

People in the Georgian breakaway region South Ossetia have been rallying in support of their independence — and possible union with Russia. Moscow says it will respect any decision the South Ossetians ...

It is sad to see such figures as Vaclav Havel and Vytautas Landsbergis (Letters, 22 September), whose courage in their states' struggles for independence from the Soviet Union is undeniable, so out of ...

Yakov Berliner/RIA Novosti A people that miraculously survived in the mountains after the Tatar-Mongolian invasions of the Middle Ages, today the Ossetians are renowned for being the creative ...

Soflan Siukayev has already lived through one war in South Ossetia. Now his family has been caught up in a second. In his house in the centre of Tskhinvali, Soflan points out a blackened hole above ...

Officials in South Ossetia today said 99% of voters had backed independence from Georgia in a referendum held at the weekend. South Ossetia, a tiny province on the border of Russia, split from ...

A small, savage conflict that started three three decades ago in the Caucasus Mountains still has daily consequences for ethnic Georgians and Ossetians. 1 A woman sits in her apartment, which was ...

Ayear on from last August's war, the evidence on the ground shows that despite claims to the contrary, tiny South Ossetia has effectively been absorbed into Russia, adding fuel to Georgia's claims ...

More than 150 years ago, ethnic Ossetians from the North Caucasus region of southern Russia fled violence and became refugees in Syria. Now their descendants want to come back. The Ossetian community ...

Mountainous South Ossetia, which is officially part of Georgia, is separated from North Ossetia in Russia by the border between the two countries running high in the Caucasus Mountains. Much of the ...