This war has become the most important, stupidest and saddest event of the past year - both for Russia, and for Georgia, and for South Ossetia. For his photo report on the war in South Ossetia, our war correspondent Arkady Babchenko was awarded the British Frontline Club award in the “Special Encouragement” category. As stated in the abstract, the award was given for “outstanding coverage of the war” and “exhibiting extraordinary initiative.” Today we are publishing Arkady Babchenko’s material almost in its entirety (during the war days, Novaya published operational reports), read it and you will understand why. Editorial