Representatives of youth movements in early hours of Monday lit candles near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to commemorate victims of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.
The Candle of Memory civil action started at 11 p.m. on August 8. About 500 activists participated in it, representative of the Nashi movement press service Anna Biryukova told Interfax.
Participants in the action commemorated peaceful citizens and Russian peacemakers killed in South Ossetia with a memory of silence.
Late on August 8, 2008, the Georgian army opened massed intensive fire at Tskhinvali from artillery mounts Grad. Then there were statements that Georgia de facto announced war to South Ossetia.
According to the information of the Investigation Committee at the Russian Prosecutor’s Office, Georgian aggression killed 162 peaceful residents of South Ossetia and 67 Russian soldiers. 255 Ossetians were injured, over 30 thousand were forced to leave places they lived.
