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 Kokoity and his cronies have lost.

With six weeks to go before the November 13 presidential election, the chances of a peaceful transition of power in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region are dwindling after the Central Election ...

More than nine months after the Russian army moved in to help the enclave of South Ossetia to self-proclaimed independence from Georgia, the promised repairs to buildings gutted by fighting have ...

Separatist South Ossetia, best known as Russia and Georgia's 2008 battlefield, is undecided about its future. Its November 13 de facto presidential election failed to produce a clear de facto winner, ...

People in the Georgian breakaway region South Ossetia have been rallying in support of their independence — and possible union with Russia. Moscow says it will respect any decision the South Ossetians ...

Four months after Georgia attempted to forcibly reassert its authority over South Ossetia, the leader of this self-proclaimed republic is facing a new challenge. Former separatist officials now based ...

The self-proclaimed president of a breakaway republic of Georgia broke off talks with Russian authorities and said she'd be inaugurated during the weekend. South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity has ...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited South Ossetia on Monday, in a trip apparently designed to assert Russia's ties to the breakaway Georgian region and dash Georgia's hopes of regaining ...

TSKHINVAL, December 5 (Itar-Tass) — South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity described the events in the republic as one of the forms of “the Orange Revolution”. At the same time, Kokoity said such ...

MOSCOW – A Russian news agency is quoting the leader of South Ossetia as saying that the breakaway Georgian region intends to become part of Russia. Interfax quotes Eduard Kokoity as saying that the ...

TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The breakaway region of South Ossetia will push for international recognition of genocide against its people, republic President Eduard Kokoity said. Kokoity said ...