South Ossetia

February 02, 2026 09:56

• The Ministry of Emergency Situations has warned drivers against traveling on the Transkam highway.

  The South Ossetian Ministry of Emergency Situations has lifted the ban on heavy-duty vehicles on the Transcaucasian Highway, but urged drivers to refrain from traveling due to the forecast of heavy snowfall and the risk of avalanches.

February 01, 2026 07:06

• The Transkam and Georgian Military Highway are closed to heavy vehicles.

  Exit from North Ossetia via the Transcaucasian Highway and the Georgian Military Highway is prohibited for heavy vehicles due to deteriorating weather conditions.

January 30, 2026 04:38

• Two South Ossetian soldiers were killed in Ukraine.

  The funerals of Anatoly Dzhioyev and Dmitry Kozayev, killed in combat, were held in South Ossetia. At least 41 South Ossetian fighters have been killed there since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine.

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.

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