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 ...

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 ...

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

Voters in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia were choosing a new president on Sunday for the first time since Georgia and Russia fought a brief war over control of the territory in 2008.

South Ossetia unilaterally broke away from Georgia in 1992 and declared itself independent. Georgia and the vast majority of UN countries do not recognize this independence. Both Georgia and ...

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 ...

South Ossetia's information ministry said no one was injured by the two mortar rounds that it said were fired from the Georgian hamlet of Ditsi toward a South Ossetian military observation post.

TSKHINVAL, May 29. /TASS/. South Ossetia will open an embassy in Syria, the Republic’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoyev told TASS on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, South Ossetia’s Foreign ...

TSKHINVAL, April 4. /TASS/. South Ossetia, a partially recognized Georgia’s breakaway region, will retain its army, while part of its military will serve in the Russian Armed Forces at the ...

International recognition of South Ossetia would allow for increased economic, political and cultural contacts with the outside world and prevent the country from being integrated into Russia.

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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 ...