Annex E.8.41 Public

ICC-01/15-4-AnxE.8.41 14-10-2015 1/3 EO PT

Annex E.8.41

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Culture & I.Mn~ KOKO I TY~ Edua1·(1 Dzhabeyeyich President of the Republic of South O,..t•tia Book& Film 09/26/2009 l~e,•iews Edua rd Kokoity (3,11ya PA ,ll)Ka6eesw1 K0Koi'IT•1) was born on October 31, 1964 in Special Report the South Ossetian :\rch ive town of Tskhinvali. He has been president of <:lobal Ru~~ia C~ll'ltd;ir the Republic of South Ossetia since 2001.

As a teenager Kokoity BG Business was a freestyle wrestling champion. After working as an BG Politics electrician for three years in the early 1980s, he served in the Wcdnccclay Soviet military between 1983 and 1985 in Kursk. People in Potittcs Sepmmber 16. 2015 BG People People In Culture Upon completion of his military service, Kokoity enrolled at the Add tQ Effipr'lte5 BG Culture South Ossetian State Peda909ica I University and graduated in People in Business Sot "!i Homop)!CO BG Places 1988, specialiiing in physical education. Kokoity started his Komsomol career while still at university and between 1988 to People in Sporl~ Folbw.11on 0 Biogs 1990 was the secretary of the Tskhlnva II Komsomol Committee. In People In Science the early 1990s, Kokoity was a member of the South Ossetian parlla ment. Kokoity fought in the war between Georgia and South Ossetia that Atso took pliict from 1990 to 1992, heading a unit under the command Sec of Gri Kochiev. After the war, Kokoity went into business in Occupy Tskhlnvall Moscow iis well u running a chi rlty that supported Ossetlan war A "Prolesl Vole" In veterans. He joined Frang in 1996, a company which fostered Tskhinvall Exposes Deep Russlan-Ossttllln trlldt links i1nd managed real tshtt In Moscow Frustrations for Soulh and St. Petersburg. Some Georgi<1n officia Is accused him of Ossetl11ns smuggling drugs and arms In the mid 1990s. By Andrew Rot!l RussiaProfil e, Forgot your Jn 1997 Kokoity was appointed trade representative to Russia and 11/15/2011 passwcrd? two years later he became an assistant to South Ossetian Dume Two ca1ididates are iii a tight deputy Anatoly Chekoyev. In 2000 he was made general director race for tjie co·1eted title of of Frang, serving in this role until he became head of the For president of South ossetre, the GQorgia n brQakaway rQpL1::>lic Ossetia social movement the following year. with a 70,000·plus populatior recognized by only five Most Popular Jn December 2001 Kokoity won South Ossetla n presidentla I cou itries iii the world. Voters 011 Stories elections in the second round, with 53 percent of the vote, setorcev leunched wbet observers have r.al led a "protes: compared to his nearest rival Stanislav Kochiev's 26 percent. vote," op:i11g by a small margin Putin Needs a Kokoity had a number of powerful a Illes during the ca mpalgn, Hero for :he oppooitio11 ca idi::late in including the Ossetian diaspora in Moscow, North Ossetian heu of Moscow's preferred :iv T&! Adel&Ja President Alexander Dzasokhov and the Tedeyev family. Kokoity cho ce. Yet excerts end local press dis.agree about ju:.t iow took office on December 18. Language Wars united Moscow's boreevcrats 3y Dan Pelesc.~uk really a re behind the Jn 2003, Kokoity broke links with the Tedeyev family, members of establishment cardrdere, and which he had appointed to prominent positions in the Ossetian how much pressure Russia is The Line of Fire customs service and security council. putting on the South ossena n 3y D<>n Pelesc.~uk 11overnment to pick the right Kokoity is against reunification with Georgia, but has said he is man in the coming run-off Mission to the prepared to negotiate a peace treaty, if Georgia recognizes South elections. Mideast Ossetian independence. DZHIOEVA, Alla By Da.'I Pelescnuk On November 12, 2006, Kokoity was reelected president of South Ale>e month-long state of emergency. On August 21, 2008 South Ossetia presidentia I elections in the !.evshon republic, winning in the second and a not her breakaway Georgian region Abkhazia appealed to the ro1 md, hl=:forP. thP. l"A~I Jlt wn~ Getting the Russian government to recognize their independence. Four days cancelled, amid allegatbns of Priorities later the Federation Council and the State Duma recognized the vote rigging. Straight two states' independence. On August 27, Kokoity announced he 3y Dan Peleschuk would allow the Russian military to set up a base in South BIBILOV, Anatoly Ilych Ossetia. He refused to a I low peacekeepers from countries South Osselian Emergencies Minister and WikiKremlin? suggested by Georgia, including the United States. Presidential Candidate 3y Dan Peleschuk 12/05/2011 t.natol·f Bi bilov was born A Nationalist February 6, 1970 in "skhmvah, Epidemic South ossene. Bi bilov had a http:lirussiaprofile.orglbg_people/resources _wno lswro _alphabet_k _ kokoity _ e_ d .htm I 112

GEO-OTP-0010-0053 ICC-01/15-4-AnxE.8.41 14-10-2015 3/3 EO PT 9/16/2015 Russia Profile - BackGrouncJ People • KOKOITY, Eduard Dzhabeyevich By Justin Lyle Jn late 2011, presidential elections were held in South Ossetia to !=.1Jr:r.A~c;ful r:;:,rP.P.r in the m I it;wy choose a successor for Kokoity, whose term of office is due to before bei n1; appcinted the de· facto Republic of South Ossetia's expire at the end of December 2011. Kokoity, who is Emergencies M nister in 2008. constitutionally banned from serving a second term made no He was a South Ossetian attempt to amend the constitution. He hacked Anatoly Bibilov prA~ic:l~mtnl :-:nnrli >