TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Max DELANY A woman looks through four-foot (1.2-metre) high coils of razor wire that divide the Russian-backed breakaway territory from Georgian-controlled land in village of Khurvaleti in Georgia on July 25, 2013. On the night of August 7-8, 2008, Georgia's pro-Western President Mikhail Saakashvili launched an offensive to reclaim breakaway region South Ossetia only to see Russian forces sweep into Georgia. The 2008 war between Georgia and Russia over the separatist region of South Ossetia may have only lasted five days. AFP PHOTO/VANO SHLAMOV (Photo credit should read VANO SHLAMOV/AFP/Getty Images)
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