Ludwig Alexejewitsch Tschibirow

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Ludwig Alexejewitsch Tschibirow ( Russian Людвиг Александрович Чибиров , Ossetian : Цыбырты Алексейы фырт Людвиг ; born November 19, 1932 in Tskhinvali , South Ossetian autonomous politician and politician in South Ossetia .) From 1996 to 2001 he was head of state of South Ossetia .

Life

Chibirov has a PhD in history, was a professor of history and university president of the Batumi State University .

From September 17, 1993 to November 27, 1996 he was President of Parliament - Chairman of the Supreme Soviet (later Council of Elders) - and thus holder of the most important and most powerful political office in South Ossetia. On November 10, 1996 he became the first holder of the newly created presidential office of South Ossetia after an internationally unrecognized election. Tschibirow was next to four other candidates and the former head of cabinet Vyacheslav Gabarajew the most promising candidate and from November 27, 1996 to December 18, 2001 in office.

Chibirow was considered politically moderate. He advocated the unification of South and North Ossetia within Russia and could also imagine a united Ossetia within the CIS. At the same time, he always kept the door open for a political solution within the Georgian state and refrained from confronting the Georgian government. There were phases in which he cooperated with President Eduard Shevardnadze . In June 1998 he signed a mutual undertaking with Shevardnadze. This defined the political status of South Ossetia, made the return of refugees possible and supported the reconstruction of the South Ossetian economy.

On December 18, 2001, Chibirow was replaced by a cousin, Eduard Kokoity , because the influential Tedejew family clan around the former head of the South Ossetian Security Council Albert Tedejew and his brother Jambulat , a former world wrestler and coach of the Soviet national team, had turned away from him .

Ludwig Tschibirow's son Alexei was arrested in January 2003 by employees of the South Ossetian secret service because of economic advantages within the Tedejew clan, and then released after Kokoity returned. In May 2003, Chibirov was accused of corruption and contract killing in South Ossetia.

Tschibirow now lives in Vladikavkaz, Russia . His political foster son Dmitri Sanakoyev , whom he appointed as his last Prime Minister in 2001, was elected president of the Georgian-controlled parts of South Ossetia in an alternative referendum on November 12, 2006 .

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