South Ossetia - Political Scandals

Street protests shook Georgia's rebel region of South Ossetia for the second day on Thursday as Russia tried to defuse a political crisis sparked by the annulment of leadership polls.Opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva, who proclaimed herself president despite a court ...

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The rebel Georgian region of South Ossetia was Wednesday in political crisis as a female opposition leader who unexpectedly won elections declared herself president despite the invalidation of the polls.Alla Dzhioyeva's surprise weekend defeat of a candidate backed by the ...

Ex-Soviet Georgia's rebel region of South Ossetia on Sunday held a tightly contested run-off election for its next leader in a poll denounced as illegitimate by the West.The first round on November 13 failed to produce an outright winner, with ...

TBILISI (Reuters) - Two candidates who have voiced different hopes for Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region competed in a run-off election on Sunday for the presidency of the small territory that was the focus of a five-day war between Russia and Georgia ...

The Kremlin's choice to lead the rebel Georgian region of South Ossetia faced a run-off election Monday after failing to win a majority in the first polls since Tbilisi's 2008 war with Russia.Anatoly Bibilov, South Ossetia's emergencies minister ...

Exit polls showed Kremlin-backed candidate Anatoly Bibilov had come top in a first round of voting for a new leader in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia on Sunday.As polls closed at 8:00 pm (1600 GMT), Bibilov, the current ...

Residents of the Georgian breakaway republic of South Ossetia vote for a new president. Andrew Raven reports.. . "South Ossetians head to polls" is...

TBILISI (Reuters) - The breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia votes on Sunday in its first presidential election since Russia recognized it as an independent state after war with Georgia three years ago.Voters in the tiny mountainous region with a population of ...

SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) - The vice president of Abkhazia, Alexander Ankvab, won the presidential race in the breakaway Georgian region on Saturday, a victory that is likely to keep the territory in Russia's sphere of influence.Friday's polls, which Tbilisi says ...

Topic: South Ossetia

S. Ossetians protest as Russia tries to defuse crisis

Russian Bungling: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to South Ossetia

Tensions rise in South Ossetia after invalid poll

Rebel South Ossetia holds tense run-off

Rebel Georgian region elects new leader in run-off

Kremlin favourite falls short in South Ossetia vote

Moscow favourite ahead in first South Ossetia poll results

South Ossetians head to polls

Rebel Georgian region votes for new president

Vice president of Georgian rebel region wins poll

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