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South Ossetia sets up student group to help rebuilding work

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South Ossetia has organized a student volunteer project to help rebuilding work in the republic, devastated by a Georgian military onslaught a year ago, a Kremlin official announced on Tuesday.

VLADIKAVKAZ, July 28 (RIA Novosti) - South Ossetia has organized a student volunteer project to help rebuilding work in the republic, devastated by a Georgian military onslaught a year ago, a Kremlin official announced on Tuesday.

A group of 18 students studying at European universities, most of whom are from the former Georgian republic, will be working on projects in the local capital Tskhinval, Irbek Doyev, Russian presidential spokesman in the neighboring Russian republic of North Ossetia, said.

The idea for the volunteer group was put forward by the All-Ossetian Public and Political Movement Alanty Nykhas (The Alanian Council), created in April.

"According to preliminary information, the construction group will comprise 18 people. Most of them are students from [South] Ossetia who are studying in European universities," Doyev said.

He said the Russian embassy in Belgium is helping to organize the project, and that the group will begin its work in South Ossetia by early September.

Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war last August, which began when Georgian forces attacked South Ossetia in an attempt to bring it back under central control. Two weeks after the end of the war, Russia recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another former Georgian republic, as independent states.

Russian investigations into Georgia's attack on South Ossetia last August have found that 5,315 people were harmed by the onslaught, either killed or injured or having their homes damaged.

The republic, which had de facto independence since a brief conflict with Tbilisi in the early 1990s, is home to around 70,000 people, most of whom have had Russian citizenship for many years.

 

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