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Boys eat free bread in Tskhinvali, the main city of South Ossetia, the breakaway region which sparked a brief war between Georgia and Russia.
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Boys eat free bread in Tskhinvali, the main city of South Ossetia, the breakaway region which sparked a brief war between Georgia and Russia.
REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
