Tag: tskhinvali

Tskhinvali regime shaken after 28 y/o suspect “tortured to death” by police

August 29, 2020 by DFWatch staff

The de facto leader of breakaway South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov dissolved “the government” Friday evening after hundreds of people rushed to the central square of Tskhinvali to protest a death of young man in Tskhinvali hospital. Inal Jabiev, 28 y/o, was suspected of attacking de facto minister of interior Igor Naniev. The latter’s car was … Read more

Tskhinvali regime revives the city’s Soviet-era name, Stalinir

April 27, 2020 by DFWatch staff

The head of South Ossetia puppet regime Anatoly Bibilov seems to revive Soviet-era name of Tskhinvali. The city, which was a capital of South Ossetia Autonomous Oblast, between 1934-1961 bore the name of Soviet leader Josef Stalin- Staliniri or Stalinir in Ossetian. It was a common thing in the USSR when major cities and towns … Read more

Tskhinvali regime sentences "defiant" Georgian medic to 21 months in jail

December 20, 2019 by DFWatch staff

Tskhinvali regime on Friday sentenced a prominent Georgian medical doctor to twenty months in jail for “illegal crossing” of “state border” of the breakaway republic. Vazha Gaprindashvili who is a well-known Georgian medical doctor and currently presides the Association of Orthopedists and Traumatologists of Georgia, was detained in mid-November in Akhalgori where he allegedly travelled … Read more

Eight detained Georgians released by Tskhinvali regime

August 21, 2019 by DFWatch staff

The de facto authorities of South Ossetia have released eight Georgian citizens detained on the occupation line. All of them are already in the territory controlled by Georgia’s central authorities. They were handed over to Georgian officials at the abandoned checkpoint in the village of Ergneti, near Tskhinvali on Tuesday. Seven men were detained on … Read more

Georgian, Ossetian athletes facilitated release of a woman from Tskhinvali jail

October 23, 2018 by DFWatch staff

Maia Otinashvili (Photo: Goga Aptsiauri, RFE/RL).

Several wrestlers and possibly other acting and retired athletes had played a key role in the release of 37 y/o Georgian woman from Tskhinvali prison, the family says, which was confirmed also by Georgia’s State Security Service (SUS).

Fire breaks out in South Ossetian de facto president's building

August 8, 2018 by DFW-admin

TBILISI, DFWatch–The building of de facto president’s administration in South Ossetia caught fire on Wednesday, destroying about 140 square meters.

The fire took place on August 8, on the 10th anniversary of the five day Russo-Georgian war, which claimed hundreds of lives from both sides.

Tskhinvali regime closes single checkpoint with Georgia proper for two days

November 23, 2017 by DFWatch staff

Razdakhan checkpoint near Akhalgori (cominf.org).

De facto authorities of South Ossetia shut down the single checkpoint connecting the breakaway republic with Georgia proper due to the recently introduced public holiday,

Putin gives yellow light to South Ossetian unification project

April 15, 2016 by Dominik K. Cagara

putin tibilov — Leonid Tibilov, de facto president meets with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, March 31, 2016. ‘Let’s wait for the moment when “the stars align”, so we can begin to implement the referendum’s results,’ Tibilov was quoted by TASS news agency (http://presidentruo.org/ photo).

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia accuses Russia of instrumental use of a South Ossetian initiative to conduct a referendum on joining Russia, while Russia continues sending mixed signals to the Tskhinvali leadership.

South Ossetian hopes for unification with the Russian Federation