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1989 1992 |
South Ossetia defended itself from Georgia with aid from Russia and about 1,000 people died in the fighting. Some 25-40,000 people fled the area. Links: Georgia, Russia, USSR, Ossetia 
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1990 |
Georgian leader Zviad Gamsakhurdia declared South Ossetia part of Georgia and marched on Tskhinvali, the declared capital. Links: Georgia, Ossetia
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1992 Jul |
South Ossetia and Georgia agreed to a cease-fire. Links: GeorgiaUS, Ossetia
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1996 Dec 27 |
Some 300 people were trapped in the Roksky Pass tunnel in the Caucasus between North Ossetia and the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia. Also Alexander Lebed announced the new Russian Popular Republican Party. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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1999 Mar 19 |
In Russia at least 56 people were killed in an explosion in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, at an outdoor bazaar. This was 2 days following a blast in neighboring Ingushetia that destroyed 2 homes. The Federal Security Service put the death toll at 63 with 104 injured. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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1999 Sep 28 |
In Chechnya 8 people were killed when a schoolhouse was bombed on the 6th day of Russian air attacks. Some 60,000 people had reportedly fled to the neighboring regions of Ingushetia, Dagestan, North Ossetia and Stavropol. Links: Russia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Ossetia
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2002 Sep 20 |
In southern Russia a collapsing glacier triggered an avalanche of ice and mud, burying the village of Nizhny Karmadon in the southern republic of North Ossetia, and killing as many as 100 people. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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2004 Aug 15 |
Sporadic gunfire and shelling took place overnight in the disputed Georgian region of South Ossetia in violation of a fragile ceasefire, wounding seven Georgian servicemen. Links: Georgia, Ossetia
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2004 Aug 17 |
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili appealed to world leaders to convene an international conference on the conflict in breakaway South Ossetia, where daily exchanges of gunfire threaten to spark a war. The province operated as a conduit for smuggling between Georgia and Russia. Links: Georgia, Russia, Ossetia
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2004 Aug 18 |
In South Ossetia 3 Georgian peacekeepers were killed in overnight shooting. Links: Georgia, Ossetia
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2004 Sep 1 |
In Beslan, Russia, more than a dozen militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in North Ossetia, a region bordering Chechnya, taking hostage over 1100 people, many of them children. They threatening to blow up the building if police storm it and at least eight people were killed. Links: Russia, Chechnya, Ossetia
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2004 Sep 2 |
In Beslan, Russia, camouflage-clad commandos carried crying babies away from a school where gunmen holding hundreds of hostages freed at least 26 women and children. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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2004 Sep 3 |
Commandos stormed a school in southern Russia and battled Chechen separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. Ultimately 334 people, including 186 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff with militants in Beslan, Russia. 31 of 32 hostage takers were killed. 6 Chechens and 4 Ingush were identified among the hostage takers. In 2006 a woman died from her injuries in Beslan bringing the total deaths to 334. Links: Russia, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Ossetia, School Shooter
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2004 Sep 4 |
A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness after more than 330 people were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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2004 Sep 17 |
The main Chechen rebel Web site, Kavkaz-Center, posted what it said was an e-mail from Basayev, claiming his "Riyadus Salikhin Martyrs' Brigade" was responsible for the bombings of two passenger jets last month, a suicide bombing outside a Moscow subway station and the school siege in the southern city of Beslan. Links: Russia, Chechnya, Ossetia
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2005 Nov 29 |
A panel in North Ossetia investigating last year's bloody school hostage siege in the southern Russian town of Beslan blamed the authorities for botching the rescue efforts and urged them to punish the culprits. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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2005 Dec 28 |
Russia’s parliament concluded the local officials contributed to the Sep 3, 2004, death toll in Beslan in contradiction to a prosecutor’s report the previous day. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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2006 Feb 2 |
In Russia 3 bombs ripped through slot-machine parlors in the southern city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, killing at least two people and injuring up to 25 others. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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2006 Feb 13 |
In North Ossetia 6 women whose relatives were victims of the 2004 Beslan school hostage seizure were on hunger strike for a fifth day, protesting what they say are efforts by authorities to prematurely end the trial of the only alleged remaining attacker. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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2006 Sep 11 |
Leaders of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia said they would hold a referendum on independence in November, a move likely to infuriate the government in Tbilisi and stoke already spiraling tensions. Links: Georgia, Ossetia
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2006 Sep 11 |
In southern Russia a military helicopter crashed on the outskirts of Vladikavkaz, the provincial capital of the republic of North Ossetia, killing at least 10 servicemen and injuring another four. Links: Russia, Air Crash, Ossetia
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2006 Nov 12 |
Voters in the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia declared overwhelming backing for its independence drive in a referendum that underlined a sharp split between Russia and the West and is likely to increase tensions in the Caucasus region. A similar 1992 referendum proclaiming the province's independence went unnoticed by the international community, leaving it in limbo. Links: Georgia, Ossetia
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2007 May 11 |
Authorities in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia launched a blockade of all ethnic Georgian villages in the province and demanded that the central government withdraw its police troops from the settlements. Links: Georgia, Ossetia
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2007 Jun 28 |
Hundreds of ethnic Georgians confronted Russian peacekeeping forces in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, throwing paint and gasoline on the troops and forcing them to stop blocking a road project. Links: Georgia, Russia, Ossetia
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2007 Nov 22 |
A passenger bus caught fire and exploded in southern Russia, killing at least five people and wounding 12. Investigators in North Ossetia said terrorism was the likely cause. Links: Russia, Ossetia
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