Elections, South Ossetian-Style

Author: Andrey Djufalakyan

Our correspondent Andrey Djufalakyan has been following the events in Georgia’s de facto Republic of South Ossetia this week. Why did Alla Djioyeva decide to go against her decision to boycott the Duma elections and called on her supporters to vote? 

There is an opinion that Djioyeva decided not to go directly against Moscow. Under the circumstances when the negotiations with Kremlin Envoy Vinokurov are still under way, they decided to join the election process in the Russian consulate in Tskhinvali, where one of the 5 polling stations located in the breakaway region. 

Eduard Kokoity kept his word. He said there would be no woman-president in the Caucasus and he meant it.