An elderly couple, whose flat was damaged during last month's fighting, eat in the hallway of a house in
Tskhinvali, the main city of breakaway South Ossetia, 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 it reasons for intervening. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (GEORGIA)