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News Source: Kiev Post
| 6 months ago
The ruling party in South Ossetia won half the parliament seats in the first election since Russia drove Georgian forces out of the breakaway Georgian province, electoral officials said Monday. Russia recognized South Ossetia as an independent...
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News Source: BBC
| 6 months ago
The three parties which support Eduard Kokoity won 91% of the vote in Sunday's parliamentary election, officials said. Mr Kokoity said the results vindicated the area's declaration of independence last August, which only Russia and Nicaragua have...
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News Source: B92
| 6 months ago
The European Union has announced that yesterday's elections in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia were "illegitimate"...Georgia is also contesting the legitimacy of the ballot, since it has not recognized the independence of Abkhazia and...
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News Source: Kiev Post
| 6 months ago
The European Union says elections for South Ossetia's separatist parliament are illegitimate and that the 27-nation bloc will therefore not accept the results. Sunday's ballot was South Ossetia's first election since a war last summer between Russian...
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News Source: The Herald
| 6 months ago
Ossetia holds first election Residents of South Ossetia trooped to the polls Sunday in the first election since Russia and Georgia fought a brief and bitter war over the breakaway republic's fate. Residents in the rebel territory, which was purged of...
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News Source: Zee News
| 6 months ago
Rebel leader tightens grip in South Ossetia poll Tskhinvali, Georgia, June 01: South Ossetia's strongman leader tightened his grip on the breakaway Georgian region Monday after a loyal party emerged as the clear winner of legislative elections.
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News Source: Press TV
| 6 months ago
The initial results have shown that a party strongly supportive of the leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia is ahead in the parliamentary elections. President Eduard Kokoity should be allowed to cement his grip on the mountainous...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
Georgia and Russia fought a brief war over the territory last summer, and afterward Moscow formally recognized it as independent...June 1, 2009 "Today's election is a test of our people's maturity, a test of the stability of our democracy," South...
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News Source: Gulf News
| 6 months ago
Officials said early turnout was strong in South Ossetia's first election since the August war that pitted Russian forces against Georgian troops. Russia routed Georgia's military and recognised South Ossetia as an independent country, but Nicaragua...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
Georgia's rebel region of South Ossetia voted on Sunday in its first election since Russian forces saved it from being retaken by Georgian troops, but internal tensions grew over its leader's policies...A sliver of land with an official population of...