Shutting of Georgian-Russian border prevents ordinary people from visiting loved ones across the mountains.
By Elizaveta Valieva in Balta and Vladikavkaz
Larisa Pavliashvili has lived in a small house in the village of Balta in Russia’s autonomous republic of North Ossetia for five years, after moving back here with her two younger daughters from the Kazbegi region of Georgia, on the other side of the nearby mountains.