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World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe/ Central Asia office Twelve months after the end of the Georgia Crisis, some 26,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) are yet to return home. The majority are now facing an uncertain future, living in government-built settlements, in rehabilitated buildings or with host families. Over 160,000 people fled the area to seek safe shelter and help as the conflict between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossettia escalated.

Source: Reuters GENEVA, March 13 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Georgians who fled last year's war with Russia in breakaway South Ossetia will probably not be able to go home unless a political solution to the ...

World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe office (MEERO) Six months ago Georgia and Russia became embroiled in a five-day conflict that displaced thousands from South Ossetia into both countries. World Vision was one of the first humanitarian organisations to provide help to the waves of people who flooded into Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia. Today, it continues to help the many who may never be able to return home and the communities that are trying to rebuild.

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Up to 136,000 people remain displaced in Russia more than fifteen years after the beginning of armed conflict in the republics of the north Caucasus.

Source: Reuters * Georgia says Russian troops stop refugees returning home * U.S. 6th fleet flagship carrying aid to Georgia * Putin says U.S. military advisers involved in conflict * Russia's Medvedev, UK's ...

Photo reports (RUS) by LJ user photomans: from Tskhinvali - here; from a refugee camp in Vladikavkaz - here.

Source: Reuters By Dmitry Solovyov JAVA, Georgia, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A safe haven in Russia was almost within sight for refugees from South Ossetia's besieged capital on Monday as they waited in parched streets for ...

Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, August 10 - The International Rescue Committee is launching relief efforts for South Ossetian civilians fleeing escalating violence between Russian and Georgian forces. Thousands of terrified residents of Georgia's embattled breakaway region of South Ossetia are reported to be on the move - leaving behind destroyed homes and trapped or missing relatives. Most are seeking safety in schools and other public buildings in neighboring North Ossetia, which is part of Russia.

Source: Reuters MOSCOW, Aug 9 (Reuters) - More than 30,000 refugees from Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia have fled the fighting there to Russia, Russian government chief of staff Sergei Sobyanin was ...