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South Ossetia talks may end standoff

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Summary of story from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, January 24, 2012

The protracted standoff in Georgia’s breakaway republic of South Ossetia between Alla Dzhioyeva, the opposition candidate whose victory in a presidential runoff ballot last November was annulled by the republic’s Supreme Court (see WVoN story), and the republic’s leaders may be close to an end.

On January 23 Dzhioyeva met with Moscow-backed de facto acting President Vadim Brovtsev for talks that both sides described as “constructive,” and which they plan to continue.

This could herald a compromise agreement along the lines proposed by Dzhioyeva in December, whereby she is inaugurated as president, but the repeat presidential ballot scheduled for March 25 goes ahead as planned, and she undertakes to back whichever candidate is acceptable to Moscow.

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