Word: vladikavkaz
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...emergency hospital in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, every room was filled with a wounded man or old person from Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia. They told stories of bombs and artillery turning their houses and courtyards into fiery traps, of perilous rescues, of the fear that they have nothing left to return to. Most have expressed confusion about why Georgia would attack and felt that they could never live with Georgians again. Those who continued to feel that their Georgian relatives, neighbors and friends were good people nevertheless believed that the Georgian leadership were stooges...
...Vladikavkaz City Recruiting Center in the Russian territory of North Ossetia lies just outside the main town, through a tall, steel gate. Inside, along a small driveway overlapped by tall pines, lie a parking lot, pavilion and fruit orchard. A low, two-story concrete building with peeling paint serves as the recruiting center. Men in clean, dark green fatigues organize would-be recruits. They are mostly men in their 50s and 60s who have already served but are too old now. Lots of gray hair and mustaches, gold teeth and cigarettes...
...create national footballing brilliance and depth, as the defeat by Spain proved. But cash always helps. "Money alone is no guarantee, but without a lot of money you don't stand even a chance," says French coach Rolland Courbis, who once directed clubs including Bordeaux, Marseilles and Alania Vladikavkaz in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. "Russia has the major resources: money, a huge population and people who know football. Now it's a question of competence in how well the system can be organized, and the focus kept on long-term development...
...SENTENCED. Nurpashi Kulayev, 25, Chechen separatist, to life in prison; for his part in the Beslan school siege that left more than 330 people dead, many of them children; in Vladikavkaz, Russia. The only survivor out of 32 terrorists who seized the southern Russian school in Sept. 2004, Kulayev was found guilty of terrorism, murder and hostage taking. He admitted his involvement in the siege, but denied killing anyone...
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