Saturday, August 23, 2025

Dzhioyeva appointed vice premier in South Ossetia

"We live in a state where rights, laws and liberties are violated by those who should be defending them," said Alla Dzhioyeva in March. Here she is casting her vote November 27, 2011; an election she won. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition leader in South Ossetia who refused to acknowledge the last election has been appointed Vice Prime Minister in the breakaway republic.

Alla Dzhioyeva boycotted the elections in March and April, but that didn’t stop the winner,

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South Ossetian opposition leader considers quitting

TBILISI, DFWatch – The South Ossetian opposition leader who was injured in an attack by authorities last week says she will decide in three days whether to stay in politics or quit, and that she might ask for political asylum elsewhere. “It’s the first time I got the idea about getting out of South Ossetia. … Read more

Dzhioyeva regains consciousness, refuses to be sent away to Russia

The winner of last November's cancelled election in South Ossetia was detained in her headquarters Thursday, one day before she had planned to hold her inauguration. Alla Dzhioyeva regained consciousness this morning after having suffered a stroke during the dramatic detention. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva has regained consciousness in a hospital in Tskhinvali. Doctors want to transport her out of the breakaway republic and to Russia, but she refuses to be moved.

It was just one day before she was going to hold

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Tenser by the day in Tskhinvali, Moscow ambassador to run

Dimitry Medoyev, South Ossetian ambassador to Moscow, has emerged as a new possible leader of the region, after the two most popular candidates both refused to take part March 25.

TBILISI, DFWatch – The situation in Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia ahead of a rescheduled elections is getting more strained day by day.

The region’s state security committee released a statement Wednesday warning of ‘possible provocations by Georgian special

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