ANNEXING OSSETIA?....So far Russia hasn't said what it plans to do about the long term status of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. However: This may change soon, as the Russian parliament is set to meet ...

South Ossetia is a small Russian-backed breakaway region inside the internationally recognized borders of Georgia. Moscow recognized South Ossetia as an independent state, along with Abkhazia ...

South Ossetia Isn’t Kosovo Whatever Moscow says, there are at least six significant differences between the two situations. By Christopher Hitchens. Aug 18, 2008 12:00 PM.

Ossetians – who are divided into two entities, North Ossetia in Russia and South Ossetia, still considered by most of the world to be part of Georgia – have been the most active in claiming Alanian ...

TSKHINVALI, South Ossetia—The first time I enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, the hotel staff immediately calls the police. They tell me that no one can process my journalist ...

Neither Georgia's ambassador to the United States nor South Ossetia's top diplomat believe their conflict is "frozen" but offer Newsweek opposite reasons for this belief.

John Durnin, spokesman for the EU monitoring mission, says the Russian border guard bases, which began appearing in South Ossetia in 2009, are part of Russia’s Federal Security Service, the FSB.

News about South Ossetia, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

After Georgian soldiers stormed South Ossetia and killed Vitaly Guzitayev's friend, he hid in the woods. Once the Georgians left, he set fire to the elegant brick homes of ethnic Georgians who ...

South Ossetia is an unlikely place for such a movement to emerge. The tiny pro-Russian region declared its independence from Georgia in 1990 and fought a bloody civil war to secure a shaky de ...

The breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia said it plans a Crimean-style referendum on joining Russia, drawing a furious riposte from Tbilisi over a move that risks inflaming the Kremlin's ...