S.Ossetian Leader Sacks PM

Eduard Kokoity, breakaway South Ossetia’s leader, signed a decree on August 3 dismissing head of the government Aslanbek Bulatsev.

Kokoity cited “health condition” of Bulatsev, according to the statement posted on the breakaway region’s governmental website.

Before becoming the breakaway region’s Prime Minister in October, 2008, Bulatsev served as the head of the Federal Tax Service in Russia’s North Ossetian Republic and prior to that he was head of the financial department of the Federal Security Service in North Ossetia.

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