RFE/RL CAUCASUS REPORT
12/2/2011 10:23:46 PM
A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the countries of the South Caucasus and Russia's North Caucasus region.For more stories on the Caucasus, please visit and bookmark our Caucasus page . |
South Ossetia's Alla Dzhioyeva Comes Into Her Own
During the recent campaign to lead the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia, former Education Minister Alla Dzhioyeva has emerged as the unlikely focal point of an even more unlikely pro-democracy movement. More Tensions are rising in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia following a clumsy attempt by de facto President Eduard Kokoity to thwart Moscow's attempt to install its preferred candidate to succeed him. More A memorial stone devoted to a former Russian army colonel convicted of murdering a young Chechen woman has appeared at the site where he was shot dead in June. More |