The fate of South Ossetia's modest military (numbering about 800 troops) has been at the center of negotiations on the level of autonomy that the small territory will retain. Most of the world ...

South Ossetia’s president, Eduard Kokoity, called Saakashvili’s ceasefire offer a “despicable and treacherous” ruse, which seems fair. enough.

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South Ossetia has been led since 2001 by Eduard Kokoiti, who has served two terms as president and is now stepping down. Among those favoured to succeed him is Anatoly Bibilov, ...

Ossetians – who are divided into two entities, North Ossetia in Russia and South Ossetia, still considered by most of the world to be part of Georgia – have been the most active in claiming Alanian ...

Three years after the Russia-Georgia war that served as the catalyst for Moscow's recognizing the independence of Georgian's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Moscow has suggested ...

South Ossetia has been a de facto Russian protectorate since Moscow's victory in the five-day war in Georgia. But the breakaway republic is becoming an embarrassment for the Kremlin, with a ...

South Ossetia is an unlikely place for such a movement to emerge. The tiny pro-Russian region declared its independence from Georgia in 1990 and fought a bloody civil war to secure a shaky de ...

Since then, South Ossetia, with the exception of a few villages controlled by the Georgian government in Tbilisi, has been run as a de facto independent state, ...

TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia called a ceasefire and said its troops were retreating Sunday from the breakaway province of South Ossetia in the face of Russia’s far superior firepower. Russia ...

South Ossetia: Separatist leader Leonid Tibilov plans referendum on 'reunification' with Russia 'The political reality is that we have to make a historic choice to be reunited with brotherly Russia' ...