South Ossetia

January 28, 2026 05:20

• Mearakishvili spoke about the security forces' visit to her parents.

  Tamara Mearakishvili contacted Sergei Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Presidential Executive Office, and reported that security forces had visited her parents in Leningor, confiscated their phones, and conducted a search.

January 26, 2026 21:50

• Tamara Mearakishvili has reported pressure on her parents.

  Tamara Mearakishvili recorded a video message in which she reported new pressure measures, this time against her parents. She said an ambulance arrived unexpectedly: first, they examined her mother, then took her father straight from the street to the hospital.

January 25, 2026 16:55

• The widows of Dzhabiev and Tsakaev are dissatisfied with the court rulings on their husbands' deaths after torture.

  Oksana Sotieva declined to appeal the security forces' sentence, which was mitigated by the Supreme Court of South Ossetia, despite believing the ruling in the case of her husband, Inal Dzhabiev, who died in a police station in Tskhinvali, to be unjust. Vladimir Tskaev's widow, Zemfira, has been seeking punishment for those involved in her husband's death for over a decade after his arrest in Vladikavkaz. The case is being heard again in court.

January 24, 2026 20:47

• Transkam is open to all types of transport

  After the road was cleared, truck traffic resumed along the Transcaucasian Highway, which connects Russia and South Ossetia.

January 24, 2026 13:59

• The movement of heavy trucks on the Transkam is prohibited.

  A ban on heavy-duty vehicles on the Transcaucasian Highway between Russia and South Ossetia has been introduced due to deteriorating weather conditions.

January 24, 2026 06:08

• A Georgian citizen was expelled from South Ossetia after violating the border.

  South Ossetian border guards expelled Georgian citizen Gela Berianidze from the republic after he crossed the border in the Leningor district the day before.

January 22, 2026 00:43

• The article on fake news about the army was first applied for a publication about the results of the "Five-Day War."

  Dozhd* journalist Valeria Kichigina has been accused of spreading fake news about the army. One of the publications she is accused of publishing concerns events in Bucha, while the second concerns the presence of Russian troops in South Ossetia after the 2008 Five-Day War. This is the first instance of the "fake news" statute being invoked for statements unrelated to the South Ossetian Military District, and it demonstrates the expansion of the statute's scope to cover other conflicts involving Russian troops.

January 21, 2026 18:14

• Alan Gagloev dismissed the government.

  South Ossetian President Alan Gagloev has dismissed the government, and Deputy Prime Minister Dzambolat Tadtaev has been appointed acting head of the cabinet.

January 13, 2026 06:45

• Mearakishvili filed a complaint against the court's decision to deport her from South Ossetia.

  Activist Tamara Mearakishvili filed a cassation appeal against the Tskhinvali City Court's decision to deport her to a place other than Georgia.

January 13, 2026 02:17

• The Transkam Highway is closed to all traffic due to snow drifts.

  The road between Russia and South Ossetia is once again closed in both directions to all types of vehicles due to heavy snowfall.

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