Local resident Valera Okropiridze walks inside the ruins of a house destroyed during recent fighting in the village of Tkviavi near Gori some 80 km (50 miles) west of Tbilisi, September 2, 2008. Russia praised the European Union on Tuesday for taking a "responsible approach" to its conflict with Georgia by refusing to impose sanctions on Moscow but said the EU had failed to understand its reasons for intervening. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA)
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