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	Ossetia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		On the southern slope is South Ossetia (1990 est.
		South Ossetia lost its autonomous region status by an act of the Georgian Supreme Soviet in 1990.
		Fighting in the region between Georgian and Ossetian forces was ended by a truce in July, which left South Ossetia under the control of the Ossetians; further accords were signed in 1996, but the political situation remains unresolved.
	www.bartleby.com /65/os/Ossetia.html (508 words)

	Wikinfo \| South Ossetia
		The Republic of South Ossetia (in Russian Respublika Yuzhnaya Osetiya, Республика Южная Осетия; in Ossetic language Respublikae Xyssar Iryston, Республикæ Хуссар Ирыстон) is a mountainous region of 3,900km² in the Caucasus.
		South Ossetia lies on the southern side of the Caucasus, separated by the mountains from the more populous North Ossetia (part of Russia) and extending southwards almost to the Kura river in Georgia.
		Tualläg in the south became what is now South Ossetia, part of Georgia (historical name of South Ossetia is Shida Kartli (Inner Kartli) and Georgians are indigenous population of this region); and Iron in the north became what is now North Ossetia, under Russian rule from 1767.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=South_Ossetia (757 words)

	Caucasus Foundation
		South Ossetia covers 3.900 square km and in 1989 had 99.000 inhabitants, 66 percent Ossets and 29 percent Georgians.
		South Ossetia is in a situation of permanent economic crisis and there is a lack of almost everything including jobs, clothes, food heating and electricity.
		In 1990-91, when the South Ossetia parliament was still dominated by leaders from the Soviet period, the main claim was still to became part of the Russian Federation.
	www.kafkas.org.tr /english/bgkafkas/bukaf_gosetya.html (662 words)

	Ossetia
		Region in the Caucasus, on the border between Russia and Georgia, comprising the autonomous republic of Alania, formerly North Ossetia, and South Ossetia, an autonomous region of Georgia.
		The Ossetes demanded that South Ossetia be upgraded to an autonomous republic as a preliminary to reunification with Alania, and in September 1990 declared the region independent of the USSR (a claim rejected by President Gorbachev).
		In September 1996, Ludvig Chibirov was elected president of South Ossetia in elections declared illegal by the Georgian government.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0011524.html (393 words)

	South Ossetia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of South Ossetia is not a territorially contiguous entity.
		On January 25, 2005, President Saakashvili presented a Georgian vision for resolving the South Ossetian conflict at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) session in Strasbourg.
		South Ossetia covers an area of about 3,900km² on the southern side of the Caucasus, separated by the mountains from the more populous North Ossetia (part of Russia) and extending southwards almost to the Mtkvari river in Georgia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Ossetia (2768 words)

	GEORGIAN PRESIDENT UNVEILS SOUTH OSSETIA PEACE PLAN
		Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has unveiled his much-touted peace plan for South Ossetia, but analysts in Tbilisi say that expectations are low that the proposal will reverse more than 13 years of hostilities between Georgia and the breakaway region.
		South Ossetia is an independent state, and this status is not going to be discussed," the Russian news service Interfax quoted Kokoiti as saying.
		Experts also believe the new autonomy program for South Ossetia was meant to deflect earlier PACE criticism of a framework plan outlining the relationship between Tbilisi and the autonomous region of Ajaria.
	www.eurasianet.org /lexisnexis/4841.html (1346 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus - Self-Determination - Regional Conflict Profile - Ossetia
		After South Ossetia declared independence (not internationally recognized, and as distinct from sovereignty) on November 28, 1991, Georgia in April 1992 reestablished the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast.
		In North Ossetia, ethnic Ingush refugees in the Prigorodnyi (literally "Suburban") region around the capital Vladikavkaz were demanding the re-attachment of that region (severed by Stalin) to Ingushetia.
		Because the referendum was held by the "Republic of South Ossetia" on its own initiative without central Georgian participation, the EU and the OSCE condemned it, declaring it illegal and void.
	www.fpif.org /selfdetermination/conflicts/ossetia_body.html (1295 words)

	The Messenger #233 (1253) - South Ossetian 'alternative' government formed in face of Russian opposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Seven members of the self-declared, 'alternative' government of South Ossetia were appointed on December 7.
		Self-declared president of South Ossetia Dmitri Sanakoyev, who won 'alternative' presidential elections held on the same day as elections held by the de facto authorities in Tskhinvali, appointed 7 members of the government on Thursday.
		President Sanakoyev won the 'alternative' elections in South Ossetia on November 12 with 94 percent of the votes.
	www.messenger.com.ge /issues/1253_december_8_2006/n_1253_3.htm (384 words)

	Georgia’s Restive Province Seeks Entry into Russia - COMMENTARY - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Some areas of the mountainous terrain of South Ossetia are like a chess-board — villages predominantly inhabited by ethnic Georgians alternate with those where ethnic Ossetians form the majority.
		The cortege of President Mikhail Saakashvili’s wife was twice blocked from traveling through the separatist province on 1 June, a day after Georgian authorities briefly sent troops into the region.
		In comments for Moskovskie Novosti, Eduard Kokoity, president of the Republic of South Ossetia, urged Georgia to admit the genocide of the Ossetian people and redress the damage inflicted on the republic in 1989-1992.
	www.mosnews.com /commentary/2004/06/11/ossetia.shtml (1703 words)

	The specter of a new conflict is hovering south of the Russian borders today
		President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoyty arrived in Moscow to hand over the appeal of his republic's parliament with a request to include the non-recognized autonomy in the Russian Federation.
		For Moscow the situation is being aggravated by the fact that nearly entire population of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are holders of Russian passports.
		In spite of the difficult situation, the presidents of Russia and Georgia are controlling it, Mr Baramidze said.
	www.russiannewsroom.com /send.aspx?id=990 (741 words)

	The South Caucasus: A Regional Overview and Conflict Assessment
		Even in the South Caucasus, however, ethnic diversity is remarkable and has challenged the attempts in the past century to draw political borders in the region.
		For example, in late 1991, the elected President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was deposed after a short military confrontation in the center of Tbilisi by a paramilitary junta that failed to receive international recognition until it invited former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze to head the newly formed ‘State Council of Georgia’.
		Since the independence of the South Caucasus, Moscow has reluctantly seen its influence in the region gradually declining, a process that it has sought to block by the use of various diplomatic, economic, and military means.
	www.cornellcaspian.com /sida/sida-cfl-2.html (9244 words)

	East Week no. 60 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Eduard Kokoity, the president of the internationally unrecognised separatist republic of South Ossetia, had decided that the election and referendum would take on 12 November.
		In the election organised by Tskhinvali, Eduard Kokoity was the clear winner, officially garnering 98.1% of votes, and in the referendum nearly all of the voters were in favour of independence for South Ossetia (99.88%).
		According to the Georgians, with two centres of power now operating in South Ossetia (the 'alternative government' is expected to receive substantial organisational and financial support), it will no longer be possible to use the possible precedent of independence for Kosovo as a model for solving the South Ossetian conflict.
	www.osw.waw.pl /en/epub/EW/061116/01.htm (1231 words)

	PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WATCH
		South Africa is hosting a fresh round of talks with the leaders of Burundi at the weekend, hoping to clinch a deal on power-sharing that could break the deadlock over holding elections, the foreign ministry said Friday.
		Georgia's president reiterated his intention of bringing separatist South Ossetia under central government control, saying Friday that the region would be integrated with the rest of the country within months.
		President Mikhail Saakashvili's statement, which came a day after negotiators agreed to reduce tensions in South Ossetia but left plenty of room for further disputes, was likely to anger authorities in the breakaway region.
	www.publicinternationallaw.org /docs/PNW4/PNW.19July_04.htm (14675 words)

	ForumGarden - South Ossetia Suceeds.
		South Ossetia held a referendum on Sunday intended to reaffirm independence from Georgia in a vote the West calls illegal but which Russia says should be respected, Reuters reports.
		Nestled on the Russian border in the foothills of the Caucasus mountains, South Ossetia broke away after a 1991-92 war that killed hundreds and forced tens of thousands to flee.
		A 500-strong peacekeeping force composed of troops from Georgia, Russia and the bordering Russian province of North Ossetia observes a fragile truce agreed in 1992.
	www.forumgarden.com /forums/printthread.php?t=21325 (675 words)

	Georgia and South Ossetia on verge of armed conflict - Pravda.Ru
		The situation in the republic of South Ossetia remains intense.
		Both Georgia and Ossetia have broken the agreements achieved in 1992, as well as the agreements achieved on June 2nd at the session of the joint supervising committee," Nabdzorov was quoted as saying.
		The Georgian president blamed Russia for the escalation of the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia.
	english.pravda.ru /main/18/87/344/13373_ossetia.html (810 words)

	Print The President of South Ossetia calls to sanction Bulgaria.
		President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoiti said in an interview with Interfax cited by The Echo of Moscow Radio that the international community should impose sanctions against Bulgaria, Poland and Ukraine because they supplied Georgia with weapons.
		The President of the unrecognized republic asserted that Georgia was getting ready to use force to solve the South Ossetian and Abkhaz conflict.
		He added that South Ossetia would strengthen its defense system as part of the preparation for a coming conflict with Tbilisi.
	www.axisglobe.com /print_news.asp?news=4134 (91 words)

	Pravda.RU South Ossetia does not want to return to Georgia
		The president of South Ossetia, a former Georgian autonomous republic which proclaimed its independence from Georgia at the beginning of the 1990s, Eduard Kokoity told the local press in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, that he does not plan to begin negotiations with Tbilisi.
		Former US President George Bush was expected to spend the day here Thursday on an unofficial private visit at the invitation of Viktor Pinchuk (a member of Ukraine's legislature and son-in-law of Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma) and the Interpai corporation, the press service of Kiev National University reported More details...
		The president of South Ossetia, a former Georgian autonomous republic which proclaimed its independence from Georgia at the beginning of the 1990s, Eduard Kokoity told the local press in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, that he does not plan to begin negotiations with Tbilisi More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/05/20/54020.html (1487 words)

	RIA Novosti - World - S.Ossetia's leader presses to join Russia
		He added that at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 South Ossetia was not a part of Georgia.
		South Ossetia and Abkhazia declared independence from Georgia following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, bringing bloody conflicts to the region.
		The region wants to rejoin North Ossetia, although the two were separate administrative entities in the Soviet era and were separated further after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
	en.rian.ru /world/20060731/52068046.html (411 words)

	President of South Ossetia: Georgia tried to provoke armed clash - Russian News - REGNUM
		President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity called a recent incident in the zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict “a provocation”.
		According to the president, the Georgian side violated a previous agreement and moved several hundreds soldiers into the conflict zone, and directly provoked the Russian peacekeepers.
		Earlier, the South Ossetian Interior Ministry informed REGNUM that the crash was pre-planned.
	www.regnum.ru /english/582812.html (611 words)

	Pravda.RU South Ossetian conflict approaches dangerous threshold
		Naturally, Tbilisi and Tskhinvali (the capital of South Ossetia) have different interpretations of the events that led to the deterioration of the situation.
		South Ossetia will release the Georgian policemen who were arrested in the South Ossetian village of Vanati yesterday More details...
		At their meeting in Moscow, Russian and Bulgarian presidents will continue the sincere and trustful exchange of opinions on pressing international issues, and on co-ordinated efforts within different international organisations, including the OSCE, where Bulgaria will be presiding in 2004 More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/07/09/54905.html (1821 words)

	Georgia Today on the Web
		On February 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin, while on a visit to Baku, stated that he pitied Georgians and advised the Georgian government to solve the social problems in the country instead of making provocative plans.
		The same day, de-facto South Ossetian president Eduard Kokoiti, paying a yet another visit to Moscow, mentioned the war theme once again and stated that Tbilisi was planning an operation for his elimination.
		According to him, the Georgian authorities were preparing a local operation aimed at eliminating the top South Ossetian authorities and occupying strategically important places in South Ossetia.
	www.georgiatoday.ge /article_details.php?id=985 (754 words)

	The Head Heeb: Don't look now...
		To be sure, South Ossetia is a de facto part of Russia already, with 95 percent of its population holding Russian citizenship and its economy oriented almost completely toward the north.
		South Ossetia is more complicated, because there is a sprinkling of Ossetian and Georgian villages throughout the area.
		Ossetia is one of the matters which is occupying his time at the moment, and he spoke of the complicated and ever-simmering political situation at the closing session of the last day of the Conference.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/032676.html (6140 words)

	Springtime is for War?
		by Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. The pending appeal of the President of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoity, to the Russian Federation's Constitutional Court may trigger a destabilizing chain of events in the Caucasus.
		Christian Ossetians, say the Russians, hold Russian citizenship and want to join their brethren in North Ossetia, which is a part of the Russian Federation.
		Ariel Cohen is research fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
	www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed033106a.cfm (1050 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity and Head of the North Ossetian Republic Teimuraz Mamsurov attended an official ceremony to launch the construction of the Dzaurikau-Tskhinvali gas pipeline.
		June 2 (Interfax) - South Ossetia's aim is to merge with the Russian republic of North Ossetia and to enter the Russian Federation, the breakaway province's President Eduard Kokoity told a news conference at the Interfax central office on Friday.
		President Georgi Parvanov sends Thursday the presidential plane to bring the children and residents of the grieving town medicines, clothing, toys and all types of aid collected in the charity campaign among Bulgarians.
	freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=ossetia (5538 words)

	Online Magazine - Civil Georgia
		On May 23, the breakaway region of South Ossetia held its fourth parliamentary elections, since seceding from Georgia as a result of the bloody armed conflict in 1992.
		The four seats in the parliament which are allocated for ethnic Georgians living in the region once again remain vacant, as Georgians in South Ossetia continue to boycott these elections, which are internationally condemned as illegitimate.
		Control by the self-styled authorities of South Ossetia is not as tight over the region as it is in breakaway Abkhazia.
	www.civil.ge /eng/detail.php?id=6991 (706 words)

	South Ossetia votes for independence - Financial Times - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The conflict over South Ossetia is one of the main causes of growing tensions between Georgia and Russia, which Tbilisi claims is supporting the breakaway authorities in South Ossetia and in a second breakaway province, Abkhazia.
		The authorities in South Ossetia, with a population of 70,000, want secession to be followed by union with Russia.
		The Georgian authorities ran parallel polls in ethnic Georgian communities in South Ossetia, apparently designed to undermine the credibility of the main elections.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/15695604 (541 words)

	RFE/RL Newsline, 06-11-07
		On November 5, South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity presented Mamsurov with a passport of the Republic of South Ossetia.
		Smirnov was elected president in 1991, 1996, and 2001.
		Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and two of his co-defendants were found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging on November 5 for their roles in the killing of 148 Shi'a from the town of Al-Dujayl in 1982, international media reported the same day.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2006/06-11-07.rferl.html (6717 words)

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