Orthodox Easter was celebrated on April 15 in Georgia. This year, Misha Tabatadze could not join in the traditional pilgrimage to visit the graves of loved ones. He could not light a candle in the cemetery where his daughter, Etuna, is buried, or place a brightly dyed red egg on her grave.
A former head of South Ossetia's KGB has been declared the winner of a presidential election in Georgia's breakaway region.
South Ossetia's election commission said that with all votes counted from a runoff poll on April 8, Leonid Tibilov won with just over 54 percent of the vote.
Tibilov's rival, human rights commissioner David Sanakoyev, had nearly 43 percent.
In a jab at Moscow, Georgia on May 20 became the first country to recognize as genocide Tsarist Russia’s massive slaughter of ethnic Circassians in the mid-19th century. The decision constitutes part of Tbilisi’s ongoing argument that the Caucasus is a region where Russia comes as an outsider, not as a native with the right to rule.
