Pictured: refugess in Georgia, including children and elderly, in shelters. Plus, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev leads performance of Tchaikovsky in South Ossetia
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Children play in a temporary home in Tbilisi for refugees displaced by the conflict in South Ossetia August 21, 2008.
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Children play in a temporary home in Tbilisi for refugees displaced by the conflict in South Ossetia August 21, 2008.
REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (GEORGIA)
A man plays with his children in a temporary home for refugees in Tbilisi August 21, 2008. The home was set up for refugees who were displaced by the conflict in South Ossetia.
REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (GEORGIA)
Children eat in a temporary home for refugees in Tbilisi August 21, 2008. The home was set up for refugees who were displaced by the conflict in South Ossetia.
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A woman folds clothes in a temporary home for refugees, displaced by the conflict in South Ossetia, in Tbilisi August 21, 2008.
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A woman reads a list of aid measures to refugees in a temporary home for refugees in Tbilisi August 21, 2008. The home was set up for refugees who were displaced by the conflict in South Ossetia.
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A woman walks in a temporary home for refugees in Tbilisi August 21, 2008. The home was set up for refugees who were displaced by the conflict in South Ossetia.
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A woman sits on a bed in a temporary home for refugees in Tbilisi August 21, 2008. The home was set up for refugees who were displaced by the conflict in South Ossetia.
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A Georgian refugee displaced during the armed conflict in South Ossetia eats bread at a temporary shelter in Tbilisi August 21, 2008.
(David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)
A medic from Russia's Emergencies Ministry attends to Nezhna Pekhshvelashvili, 98, an ethnic Georgian who is being evacuated from the Georgian village of Kheiti near the breakaway region's capital Tskhinvali August 21, 2008. Kheiti was destroyed by South Ossetian militia.
(Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)
Georgians wave their national flag while confronting Russian soldiers at a check-point demanding their ouster on the road from Tbilisi to Gori near Kaspi August 21, 2008. The image is rotated 90 degrees.
(Adrees Latif/Reuters)
Russian conductor Valery Gergiev (C) greets the audience during a concert in front of South Ossetia's parliament building that was damaged during fighting in the breakaway region's main city Tskhinvali August 21, 2008. Russia's most famous conductor Valery Gergiev led a performance of Tchaikovsky among the bombed-out buildings of South Ossetia on Thursday to honour those who died in a Georgian assault.
REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (GEORGIA)
Russian soldiers man a checkpoint near the Georgian village of Kekhvi in breakaway South Ossetia August 21, 2008.
(Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)...
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