Ex-KGB Boss Is South Ossetia’s New President

In actuality, this has less to do with bringing back an “old dream” to a small ‘breakaway region’ and more to do with the USSR reasserting itself.

A former KGB chief has won the presidency in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia, where Moscow is trying to re-assert control.

Leonid Tibilov, 60, won with 54.1% of the vote in a run-off against presidential human rights commissioner David Sanakoyev, election commission chief Bella Pliyeva said.

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“We will develop the relationship with Russia in all areas. We are aiming to make an old dream about the reunification of South and North Ossetia a reality,” he told reporters at a polling station in the region’s capital, Tskhinvali.

Full article: Ex-KGB Boss Is South Ossetia’s New President (Sky News)