If you respect the choice of the people, you respect the people." Against Long Odds South Ossetia is an unlikely place for such a movement to emerge.

We traveled to Transnistria and Moldova in June 2009, to Abkhazia in late 2009, South Ossetia in the spring of 2010, and a fourth de facto state that has separated from Azerbaijan, the Nagorny ...

According to Georgia, at least 28,800 ethnic Georgians have fled South Ossetia in recent weeks, part of a larger exodus of some 160,000 people from the conflict zone.

People here blame the United States for providing military support to Georgia and emboldening Tbilisi to act against South Ossetia, and there is no ambivalence about the relationship with Moscow.

Some South Ossetians favor “South Alania,” dropping the “Ossetia” name altogether, under the belief that “Ossetia” is derived from the Georgian name for the people. Others favor using some version of ...

South Ossetia is the world’s only territory that has formally recognized the two “people’s republics.” South Ossetia itself was recognized by Russia in 2008, after Moscow crushed an attempt by Georgia ...

The Russian-patrolled border that separates South Ossetia from Georgia snakes its way across sunny fields cut with trenches and through quiet woods spotted with landmines.

If granted autonomy, South Ossetia would rank as the world's 11th smallest state by population (72,000) and the 30th by landmass (3,900 square kilometers). U.S. World ...

Leaders of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia say they're planning a referendum on joining the Russian Federation, according to Russian state news agency TASS. Georgians have been ...

Anatoly Bibilov's election creates an uncomfortable dilemma for Russia, given the assurances Vladimir Putin gave that if the people of South Ossetia voted to become part of Russia, their wishes ...

A car exploded outside the Russian military's headquarters in South Ossetia on Friday, killing seven people and wounding three, the government of the Moscow-backed separatist region said.