Dmitry Sanakoyev

Dmitry Sanakoyev
Dmitry Ivanovich Sanakoyev
Defense Minister of South Ossetia
In office
2000 – 2000
President Lyudvig Chibirov
Preceded by Nikolai Dzagoev[1]
Prime Minister of South Ossetia
In office
14 June 2001 – December 2001
President Lyudvig Chibirov
Preceded by Merab Chigoev
Succeeded by Gerasim Khugayev
Head of the Provisional Administrative Entity of South Ossetia
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 4, 2007
Personal details
Born May 10, 1969 (1969-05-10) (age 42)
Tskhinvali, Soviet Union
Political party The Salvation Union of South Ossetia

Dmitry Ivanovich Sanakoyev (born 10 May 1969 in Tskhinvali, South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union[2]) is a South Ossetian and Georgian politician, a former official in the secessionist government of South Ossetia and currently Head of the Provisional Administration of South Ossetia, a rival entity established in 2007 in the Georgian-controlled territories of this separatist region.

Sanakoyev was born in Tskhinvali, in what was then the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast of the Georgian SSR. He graduated from the South Ossetian Pedagogical State Institute in 1993, and served as a Soviet army officer in Lithuania from 1987 to 1989. In the 1991-1992 war between Georgian forces and secessionist militias he fought on the Ossetian side. In 1993-1996 worked in the South Ossetian de facto defence ministry. In 1996 he was appointed defence minister and in 1998 vice prime minister. In July 2001 he became prime minister of South Ossetia, serving until December 2001, when Eduard Kokoity replaced Lyudvig Chibirov as South Ossetia’s leader.

During the South Ossetian presidential elections, 2006, on November 13, in a so-called "alternative" poll organized by The Salvation Union of South Ossetia in Georgian- and Ossetian villages not controlled by the separatists, Sanakoyev was declared the president-elect, with more than 80 percent of the vote. His campaign posters were prominently posted on walls outside polling stations in Georgian-controlled villages, and benefited from extensive media coverage in the Georgian press. His election manifesto envisaged the restoration of the region's status as an autonomous republic within Georgia and a program of measures to spur economic growth.

At a press conference on November 13, 2006, Kokoity termed Sanakoyev and Karkusov, head of the alternative election commission and a former adviser to Kokoity, "traitors to their homeland and traitors to the South Ossetian people." The South Ossetian media launched a campaign to discredit and compromise Sanakoyev, accusing him of corruption, duplicity, and collaborating with Georgian intelligence. In December 2006, Sanakoyev formed a government, choosing not to appoint a defense minister.[3]

On May 10, 2007, Sanakoyev was appointed by the President of Georgia as the Head of South Ossetian Provisional Administrative Entity. The next day Sanakoyev addressed the Parliament of Georgia in Ossetic, outlining his vision for a resolution of the conflict in South Ossetia (full text).[4] The move earned praise from the United States State Department, but alarmed the de facto authorities in Tskhinvali, which ordered the blocking of traffic to ethnic Georgian villages and threatened to oust Sanakoyev’s government by force, moves that received the disapproval of the Russian government.[5]

On June 26, 2007, Sanakoyev delivered a speech, in his native Ossetian, at the EU-Georgian Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in Brussels, his first appeal to the international community. He emphasized that "a direct dialogue between the Georgian and Ossetian peoples, and demilitarization of the region, are of crucial importance… The European type of autonomy, like in South Tyrol, can serve as a model… in unified Georgia…. where liberal democracy is being built".[6]

On July 3, 2008, Sanakoyev survived an attack on the convoy he was traveling in when it hit a remote-controlled mine. Both Sanakoyev’s administration and Georgian police officials blamed forces loyal to Kokoity's separatist government of South Ossetia for organizing the incident, but a representative of that government denied any connection with the attack.[7]

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ (Russian) Lenta.ru: Biography of Dmitry Sanakoyev
  3. ^ Dmitry Sanakoev Formed Alternative Government Of South Ossetia - The Georgian Times, November 12, 2006.
  4. ^ Head of S.Ossetia Administration Addresses Georgian Parliament. Civil Georgia. May 11, 2007. Retrieved on May 12, 2007.
  5. ^ Eduard Kokoity Makes Siege Mistake. Kommersant. Retrieved on May 12, 2007.
  6. ^ Tbilisi’s S.Ossetia Diplomatic Offensive Gains Momentum, Civil Georgia. June 26, 2007. Retrieved on June 26, 2007.
  7. ^ Three Injured in Attack on Georgian Convoy in S.Ossetia. Civil Georgia. 2008-07-03.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Merab Chigoev
Prime Minister of South Ossetia
2001
Succeeded by
Gerasim Khugayev



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