U.S. PR agency Saylor Company will be engaged in image making of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the West, Reuters agency reports, referring to Director of Saylor Company, Mark Saylor — former Chief Editor of The Los Angeles Times, and South Ossetia’s ombudsman David Sanakoyev.

According to Abkhazian and Ossetian officials, public relations experts will try to raise patterns of perception on both Republics after August war. Contracts with PR agency were signed in June, 2009. Abkhazia and South Ossetia will pay PR experts $165-550/hour (conflict zone is 50% as much). At that, Saylor Company will get no more than $30 000 a month.