A man stands near the closed border barrier between the Georgian village of Ergneti and Tskhinvali, regional capital of Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009.

A man stands near the closed border barrier between the Georgian village of Ergneti and Tskhinvali, regional capital of Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009.