Georgia-Russia tensions spilling over | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "TSKHINVALI, Georgia — Passing through the armed, garbage-strewn checkpoint, travelers get a warning from a Georgian guard: Once you cross, you're on your own.
The barrier is a stark image of Georgia's failure to assert its authority over its breakaway region of South Ossetia, which has just voted to ratify the breakup, raising the stakes in a struggle for control of the multiethnic, multireligious Caucasus that some fear could come to echo the Balkan wars."
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