Residents in the Georgian village of Dvani are up in arms over efforts to put up a barbed-wire fence along the administrative boundary with breakaway South Ossetia, one of Georgia's two Moscow-backed separatist regions. Work on the fence appears to have been halted amid international criticism. But officials in Tbilisi remain prepared for a further escalation of the territorial dispute.
Russian troops have attempted to shift part of the border between the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia and the rest of the country. Residents of the village of Kveshi say the soldiers erected new border markers some 500 meters into Georgian territory on August 2, but then removed the posts early the next day.
Officials from Georgia and South Ossetia traveled to the Georgian city of Gori to supervise an agreed swap of prisoners taken captive in the days following the outbreak of fighting between Georgia and Russia on August 7.
