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David Sanakoyev (parliamentrso.org) and Ibragim Gassyeyev (RES)

Anatoly Bibilov

Key rivals of South Ossetia’s Bibilov barred from running for president

by OC Media

•2 min read

South Ossetia’s presidential race formally kicked off on Wednesday in scandal, with the electoral authorities refusing to register two key opposition contenders who wished to challenge incumbent president Anatoly Bibilov. On Wednesday the Central Election Commission (CEC) registered five presidential contenders: Bibilov, Vice-Speaker of parliament Aleksandr Pliyev, chair of the opposition Nykhas party Alan Gagloyev, MP Garri Muldarov, and former MP Dmitriy Tasoyev. South Ossetian presidentia

For months the South Ossetian parliament has been paralysed as the opposition are boycotting sessions. Official image.

Anatoly Bibilov

Five months in, crisis in South Ossetia shows little sign of abating

by Zarina Sanakoeva

•5 min read

After five months of protests, threats, and boycotting of parliament, the political crisis in South Ossetia is continuing unabated. Local experts see no way out of the impasse. On 11 February, a session of the South Ossetian parliament was again aborted after a lack of a quorum was reached. Almost half of MPs, 14 out of 32, have been boycotting parliamentary sessions for five months. They remain steadfast in their demand for President Anatoly Bibilov to dismiss the Prosecutor General, Uruzma

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Georgia and South Ossetia — working to identify the dead

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

There are over 2,000 people whose fate is still unaccounted for from Georgia’s conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, making it difficult for families to grieve and move on. While cross border efforts lead by the Red Cross are in full swing to find, exhume, and identify the bodies of the fallen — time is not on their side. ‘If he is dead, then where is his body?’ For nine years Ana Samadalashvili from Gori has been waiting for her husband to return home. On 8 August 2008, Zaza Birtveli