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 [...]
Tag: breakaway region
December 7, 2011
December 6, 2011
No End In Sight To South Ossetia Standoff
Caucasus Report Eduard Kokoity says he’s not “clinging to power,” but wants to cede power to his successor in line with the law and the constitution. December 05, 2011 One week after the Supreme Court in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia annulled the results of the November 27 presidential runoff, there is no end [...]
November 30, 2011
Transdniester Talks Resume After Five Years
The first formal talks since 2006 on Moldova’s two-decade conflict with its breakaway region of Transdniester have opened in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius. Lithuania brokered the talks in its capacity as chair of the 56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The meeting involves the “5+2″ grouping — Moldova, Transdniester, Russia, Ukraine, and the [...]
November 22, 2011
Moldova Anticipates ‘More Intense Dialogue’ With Russia Over Transdniester
CHISINAU — Moldovan Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca says Moscow is increasingly open to a “more intense dialogue” with Chisinau over the breakaway region of Transdniester, RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service reports. Leanca told RFE/RL on November 21 that Moldovan officials will ask Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “legitimate questions” about Russia’s relations with “a part of Moldovan [...]
November 17, 2011
S. Ossetia Split on Kremlin Nominee
S. Ossetia Split on Kremlin Nominee By Nikolaus von Twickel The St. Petersburg Times Published: November 16, 2011 (Issue # 1683) MOSCOW — The weekend’s presidential election in South Ossetia ended with a surprise tie between the candidate supported by Moscow and a major opposition figure, authorities in the tiny Georgian breakaway region said Monday. Analysts said the opposition candidate’s strong showing [...]
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 [...]
October 24, 2011
Medvedev Gets Armenian, Turkish Presidents To Talk
Russian President Dmitry Medvedvev had visiting Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian join a telephone call he had placed to his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul to pay condolences for the hundreds of victims perished in an earthquake in Turkey on October 23. The Kremlin said Sarkisian “joined the conversation, relaying his sincere sympathies and support to the [...]
October 20, 2011
Russia voices concern over Transdniester elections
The Russian Public Chamber has voiced concern about the forthcoming presidential poll in the breakaway region of Transdniester, where about 30 per cent of the population has Russian citizenship. The Public Chamber issued a statement on the Transdniester elections after receiving letters from the residents of the republic which pointed out serious problems with the [...]
October 19, 2011
In Hosting Domino Championship, Abkhazia Hopes To Score Internationally
Dominoes is more than just a game in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia. It is also a welcome and relaxing diversion in a territory that still bears the scars of war and where unemployment is rampant. But this week, the pastime is taking on a whole new meaning with the Abkhaz capital, Sukhumi, hosting [...]
October 17, 2011
Main Opposition Candidates Barred From South Ossetian Presidential Ballot
The South Ossetian presidential election campaign has claimed its first fatality. Soslan Khugayev, a leading member of would-be opposition presidential candidate Albert Dzhussoyev’s Forward, Ossetia! party, was shot dead in Vladikavkaz, the capital of neighboring North Ossetia late on October 14, just two days after the South Ossetian Central Election Commission (TsIK) rejected Dzhussoyev’s application [...]
October 16, 2011
NATO gives Serbs until Monday to clear barricades
KFOR delivered an ultimatum to ethnic Serbs in Kosovo manning barricades at a border crossing in the breakaway region’s north: remove the obstacles by Monday, or else the international peacekeepers will step in and clear the road themselves. KFOR Commander Erhard Drews insisted that the barricades are preventing the freedom of movement in Kosovo for [...]
September 27, 2011
New Abkhaz Leader Takes Oath Of Office
Aleksandr Ankvab has been sworn in as the de facto leader of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia. Ankvab won the August 26 presidential election that was denounced by Georgia. Abkhazia conducted elections on August 26 after the previous leader Sergei Bagapsh died in May. Abkhazia broke away from Georgia after the brief Russian-Georgian war [...]
September 17, 2011
Ethnic Serbs battle isolation as Kosovo reinforces northern border
A stand-off between KFOR forces and ethnic Serbs is underway on the Kosovo–Serbia border after Pristina took full control over the only two border crossings that link an ethnic Serb enclave in northern Kosovo with Serbia proper. Kosovan police assisted by NATO’s KFOR have taken over two border crossings with Serbia in the north of [...]