It promised to restore civil rights and “reset” relations with Moscow, which fought a brief war with Georgia in 2008 over the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Russia then recognized the ...

As many as 2,000 people had been killed in the capital of separatist Georgian province South Ossetia, according to a Russian ambassador. "The city of Tskhinvali no longer exists. There is nothing ...

TSKHINVAL, April 11. /TASS/. South Ossetia plans to hold a referendum on whether to become part of the Russian Federation before August, the republic’s president, Leonid Tibilov, told TASS in ...

Georgia’s ruling and opposition parties have ruled out restoring diplomatic relations with Russia unless Moscow returns the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the business newspaper ...

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)-- Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia offered differing accounts Friday of a shooting that highlights continued tension between them amid Georgia's NATO ambitions.

MOSCOW, February 18. /TASS/. Fears that Georgia will attack South Ossetia again remain, South Ossetian Foreign Minister David Sanakoyev said Wednesday at a news conference in TASS. "As of today ...

The 15 sanctioned entities are mostly Russian, except for the Storm Corps and a bank based in South Ossetia, a Russia-backed autonomous state in Georgia. The new sanctions designation will take ...

Since Russia's 2008 invasion of Georgia, tensions have periodically resurfaced over the disputed area of South Ossetia; Russia has never fulfilled its obligations under the Six-Point Cease-Fire ...