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By Margarita Antidze and Jack Stubbs GORI, Georgia/MOSCOW (Reuters) - In the courtyard of an apartment building in the town of Gori in ex-Soviet Georgia is a clue to whether Russia's air strikes on targets in Syria are as accurate as the Kremlin would like the rest of the world to believe. Fashioned out of fragments of ordnance is a makeshift shrine to the five residents killed during the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008 when a Russian air force jet, which Georgian defense officials believe was aiming for a nearby tank regiment, missed and hit the apartment building instead. Until Russia launched its military operation in Syria last month, the war in Georgia was the last time its air force had conducted air strikes in combat.More...