Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree simplifying the process for residents of Georgia’s Russian-occupied ...

It is internationally recognised as part of Georgia, but most people here have Russian passports and draw Russian ... Georgia attempted to recapture South Ossetia, which had fought a separatist ...

Georgian troops entered Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia and later Russian troops ... be provided to persons with an identity card or passport of a Georgian citizen. According to the ...

Russia recognized the independence of Abkazia and South Ossetia after fighting a brief war with Georgia in August 2008. Since the war, residents of the two territories have had to use passports ...

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the draft agreement with South Ossetia on double citizenship and the simplified procedure for obtaining Russian passports for South Ossetians, ...

In 2002, Moscow began granting Russian citizenship to residents of Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. That policy helped to increase the number of Russian passport holders ...

South Ossetia's de facto President Leonid Tibilov ... If you are in Russia or the Russia-controlled parts of Ukraine and hold a Russian passport or are a stateless person residing permanently ...