Friday, December 5, 2025

South Ossetia plans to impose customs tax at checkpoint near Akhalgori

Razdakhan border crossing
(cominf.org)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Breakaway South Ossetia plans to charge customs tax for goods to the region’s lower east corner, to the detriment of the Georgians living there who depend on the trade.

A customs point will be opened at the Razdakhan checkpoint near Akhalgori,

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Georgian schools in Akhalgori facing a language dilemma

Anatoly Bibilov, de facto president of South Ossetia.

AKHALGORI, DFWatch–As eight Georgian schools in Akhalgori, South Ossetia have fully switched to Russian as the language of instruction, teachers find it hard to teach and are afraid of losing their jobs.

As most pupils don’t know Russian, this may make their families leave Akhalgori and settle

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200 tons of produce enters Akhalgori every day

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Mosabruni, or Razdæxæn, checkpoint. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Every day, about 200 tons of agricultural products is brought from Georgia into the Akhalgori district of South Ossetia, Sputnik Ossetia reports.

Akhalgori is a part of the breakaway region which was under Georgian control until the war in 2008. Many people cross

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French senators on field trip near disputed Georgian village

Akhalgori, or Leningor, used to be under Georgian control, but was seized by Russian forces in 2008, and is now under the control of the breakaway region South Ossetia. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – A group of French senators on a midsummer visit Tuesday toured close to a village which was taken by Russia in the 2008 war.

The senators’s trip took them to the surrounding area close to the village Akhalgori. The village was renamed Leningor

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