Zhanna Tarkhanova

Impostor and Taliban: who went to Afghanistan on behalf of South Ossetia and why

South Ossetia

September 26, 2021

S. Ossetian representative in talks with Taliban may have been an impostor - an employee of the SVR invited from Russia who recently became the center of another scandal amid his murky biography

'Impostor' in special services sparks scandal in S. Ossetia

South Ossetia

September 01, 2021

Scandal erupts in S. Ossetia around the "impostor" in the special services - an invited expert from Moscow, whose biography raised questions among local authorities

August 8 Russian-Georgian war: testimonies of Georgian and Ossetian survivors

August war 2008

August 09, 2021

JAMnews collected August 2008 war survivor testimonies - from those who witnessed during their childhood and adolescence

Family of 28 y.o. man tortured and killed in police custody in S. Ossetia demands fair investigation

South Ossetia

December 06, 2020

Inal Dzhabiev's family protests in South Ossetia, claiming that he died from torture at the police station. The authorities presented an expert opinion on drug use

Stalin monuments increasingly cropping up across north, south Ossetia

Joseph Stalin

November 03, 2020

The cult of the Soviet generalissimo still exists in both South and North Ossetia

S. Ossetian officials turn to Russia for help following coronavirus outbreak

Coronavirus

October 29, 2020

A Russian field hospital has been deployed in Tskhinval, a sharp increase in the number of infections is associated with the opening of the Russian border

S. Ossetia: 28-year-old thought involved in attempt on interior minister likely tortured to death

South Ossetia

August 28, 2020

In South Ossetia protesters demand the resignation of the president and the government after the death of Inal Dzhabiev, allegedly from torture. The president promises a full investigation

South Ossetia: customs regs giving rise to food and goods crisis

South Ossetia

August 20, 2020

There is a critical shortage of food in South Ossetia.

Attempt on life of South Ossetian minister of internal affairs

Crime

August 18, 2020

There are so far no detainees, and the motive for the attack is unknown

The scandal with wings - South Ossetia claims to have uncovered another conspiracy between Georgia and the United States

Georgian-Ossetian conflict

July 29, 2020

Not everyone believes in the authorities' story that the man detained on the border was catching bats for the American biological laboratory

Is the Soviet Union being reborn in North Ossetia?

July 05, 2020

Soviet passports, the Supreme Council and even the KGB - a "sect" is trying to revive the USSR

Director of only cell provider in South Ossetia arrested while on ‘illegal treasure hunt’

June 26, 2020

Roman Kovriga has yet to be indicted

A home of their own after the orphanage – the story of Sarmat, Filip, and a girl who was cheated twice

June 08, 2020

In North Ossetia, when orphans reach 18 years of age they must leave an orphanage, but are entitled to receive an apartment from the state

“Do they want to intimidate MPs?" – 200 security officers in camouflage, with arms attended parliament session in South Ossetia

June 08, 2020

A recent prison scandal in which 20 prisoners cut their veins in protest against the excesses of the prison guards led to a stand off in parliament

Around 20 prisoners cut their wrists in South Ossetian penal colony

June 06, 2020

Prisoners cut their wrists following a prison raid in South Ossetia. No one died. This is not the first time prisoners in this colony have protested against inhumane treatment

How all of North Ossetia raked together $2.1 mln to save the life of one little girl

May 26, 2020

North Ossetia and the whole world raised $2,100,000 for 1.5-year-old Arnella Persayeva to treat her rare genetic condition

Coronavirus in the North Caucasus: cases spike, mistrust in authorities grows

Coronavirus

May 05, 2020

Massive denial of the coronavirus pandemic gives way to outrage and despair in the North Caucasus. In Dagestan, the threat of mass deaths

Stalin revived in towns in South Ossetia, Eastern Ukraine

April 28, 2020

South Ossetia's city of Tskhinval has been given a second name - Stalinir. Why people here continue to love Stalin, after so many Ossetians perished in the repressions during his rule

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