By Ailis Halligan in Nikozi 40 minutes’ north from the Georgian town of Gori, the village of Nikozi lies jammed against the boundary with South Ossetia. From the yard of the Zemo Nikozi church of the Deity, the de facto republic’s capital, Tskhinvali, is clearly visible a few kilometres to the north. It lies just the other side of a barbed wire fence which separates the breakaway region from the rest of Georgia. “There used to be Georgian villages there,” says our interpreter, Mikael Sultanovi, pointing to a bare hillside just past the occupation line, “but after 2008 they were not Georgian an…