Six people cross Russia-Georgia border since its reopening | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Only six people have crossed the Russian-Georgian border since an automobile border crossing, the only direct overland route between the two countries, was reopened Monday, a Russian border guard spokesman said.
Russia closed the Verkhny Lars checkpoint on the border with Georgia for reconstruction in July 2006 for an indefinite period. The South Caucasus state protested the move, saying it was an ‘unfriendly act.’ After a brief war in 2008 between Russia and Georgia over the republic of South Ossetia, Russia kept the border closed, even though the reconstruction of the border control point was finished in May of last year.”