Living on the Shifting Border of Georgia and Russia – The New York Times

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Living on the Shifting Border of Georgia and Russia

For over a year, Tako Robakidze has visited villages across Russian-occupied Georgia, photographing those for whom borders seemed to change overnight.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/lens/living-on-the-shifting-border-of-georgia-and-russia.html

Such is the case for people living in Tskhinvali, or South Ossetia, a region recognized by the United States and NATO as Georgian territory but a Russian stronghold for the last 30 years. A truce was ostensibly called in 2008, but as the photographer Tako Robakidze discovered, ask any Georgian in the area and they will insist the conflict never really ended.