
Ethnic Ossetian Lena Kudakhova, 67, is seen near her destroyed house, in Ksuisi village, 20 km East from Tskhinvali, near South-Ossetian- Georgian border Georgia, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. Ksuisi was married to a Georgian man killed in the recent fighting. Now her half-Georgian daughter is in hiding nearby, fearing retaliation, and her half-Georgian son has fled to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The war between Russia and Georgia has caused the worst rift between Russia and the West since the Cold War. But it has also pitted neighbor against neighbor in this region of mountain slopes and fruit orchards, home to two ethnic groups who have lived side by side for centuries. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)