WORLD * South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva asked her supporters to stop demonstrations on the main square of the republic’s capital, Tskhinvali, under a deal reached with the incumbent authorities * Residents of Moldova’s breakaway Transdnestr region voted to elect their leader for the next five years RUSSIA * President Dmitry Medvedev disagreed with [...]
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December 12, 2011
December 11, 2011
South Ossetian Opposition Leader Offers Compromise Solution To Standoff
Caucasus Report Opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva has offered to call off the protests if she is named interim president until the repeat election. December 09, 2011 With support for outgoing de facto South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity crumbling, Alla Dzhioyeva, the apparent winner of the election to choose his successor, has proposed a solution to [...]
December 7, 2011
South Ossetia Heads Into Uncharted Constitutional Waters
Caucasus Report Will Eduard Kokoity seek to stay on as president? December 06, 2011 The Supreme Court of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia has upheld its annulment of the outcome of the presidential runoff on November 27, in which opposition candidate Alla Dzhioyeva defeated the Kremlin’s preferred candidate, South Ossetian Emergency Situations Minister Anatoly [...]
December 3, 2011
S.Ossetia protesters refuse to leave square for Duma polls
Thousands of opposition protesters in the partly recognized South Ossetian republic have refused to leave the square to cast their votes in the Russian parliamentary elections due on Sunday. The protesters, most of whom have Russian citizenship, are rallying in support of former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva who won the November 27 runoff presidential polls [...]
December 2, 2011
December 2, 2011
S.Ossetian president: no clampdown on opposition
President Eduard Kokoity of the former Georgian republic of South Ossetia said on Friday there would be no crackdown on opposition rallies led by former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva. Dzhioyeva’s supporters are protesting on the central square of the capital Tskhinvali against the Supreme Court’s ruling to annul the runoff results, which gave a preliminarily [...]
December 2, 2011
Disqualified South Ossetian Candidate Won’t Meet With Russian Official
TSKHINVALI — Alla Dzhioyeva, the disqualified South Ossetian presidential candidate, says she does not see any reason to hold talks with a Kremlin representative who arrived in the breakaway Georgian province on December 2. Dzhioyeva said she saw no point in meeting Sergei Vinokurov, a representative of Russia’s presidential administration, accusing Russian officials of siding [...]
December 2, 2011
S.Ossetian president: no repressions against opposition
President Eduard Kokoity of Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia said on Friday there would be no crackdown on opposition rallies led by former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva. Dzhioyeva’s supporters are protesting on the central square of the capital Tskhinvali against the Supreme Court’s ruling to annul the runoff results, which gave a preliminarily victory to Dzhioyeva [...]
December 1, 2011
Situation After Elections Remains Tense In South Ossetia
Supporters of disqualified presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva are reportedly gathering outside her campaign headquarters in Tskhinvali, capital of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia. The Russian news agency Interfax reported that some 70 to 100 mostly men have assembled with some of them planning to storm the government building. Dzhioyeva appeared to be winning [...]
November 30, 2011
South Ossetia Court Annuls Second Round Of Presidential Voting
The Supreme Court of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia has voided the second round of the region’s election to choose a de facto leader in which an opposition candidate was leading according to early preliminary results. The court declared the November 27 voting illegitimate after ruling that there had been significant electoral violations. [...]
November 17, 2011
South Ossetia Vote For New Leader Goes To Runoff
Officials in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia say an election to pick a new leader there will go to a runoff between a Kremlin-backed candidate and a former senior education official. The election is not recognized by Georgia, which regards South Ossetia and neighboring Abkhazia as renegade regions despite Russian recognition of their unilateral [...]
November 17, 2011
Curtains For Kokoity
Caucasus Report Central Election Commission staff empty a ballot box after voting closed at a polling station in the South Ossetian city of Tskhinvali on November 13. It is not yet clear who the new de facto president of Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia will be. One thing is clear, however: outgoing President Eduard [...]
November 12, 2011
Four Candidates Quit South Ossetian Presidential Race
Caucasus Report Alla Dzhioyeva is one of the candidates running in the South Ossetian election who is backed by neither the current leadership nor Moscow. Over the past four days, four of the 17 registered candidates in the November 13 election to succeed Eduard Kokoity as de facto president of the breakaway Georgian region of [...]
November 9, 2011
Bout has no faith in review, appeal of case in U.S.
Convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout does not believe in the prospect of an impartial decision of his case by a new jury if he appeals, he said in a statement. “I do not believe that a new jury will decide in my favor. The charges for the average American are too fearful, public prosecutors [...]