Everywhere you go the menus are in Russian, shop signs are in Russian, sometimes only in Russian, without a single Chinese sign; the bhotels/b buzz with Russian-speaking guides. In the city of Sanya, b...../b In October, for instance, several drunken Russian soldiers wandered into a Georgian police checkpoint in the village of bNikozi/b. It's just a few kilometres from Tskhinvali and in their drunken state they could have mistaken their way. An agreement with the police was b.../b
Returnees disembarking a bus in Nikozi were startled by three Russian troop carriers, which roared through town with Russian flags flying. One soldier was taking pictures with his cellphone. With a deep sigh, Leila Maznishvili started ...