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.

Eduard Kokoity, who served from 2001-11 as de facto president of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, reportedly plans to run in the presidential election due in April 2017. Whether Kokoity will ...

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, ...

(Reuters) - The Russian-backed rebel region of South Ossetia votes in a parliamentary election on Sunday that the opposition fear will cement the power of the province's leader, Eduard Kokoity. South ...

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 ...

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 ...

The December 10 resignation of de-facto leader Eduard Kokoity has brought rest at last to the protest-riven breakaway region of South Ossetia. After a fortnight-long standoff, demonstrators left the ...

South Ossetia, a tiny central-Asian state, had a presidential election this weekend. If you are wondering why you've never heard of the country, its probably because most of the world doesn't ...

The FINANCIAL — Chairman of the "United Russia", chair of the Russian state Duma (lower house of the parliament) Bois Gryzlov met the secessionist leaders of Abkhazia, Sergey Bagapsh and South Ossetia ...