The Unity Party ( os, Иудзинад, ka, ერთიანობის, russian: Единство; officially, the South Ossetian Republican Political Party "Unity") was a major

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with a socially conservative ideology in

South Ossetia South Ossetia, ka, სამხრეთი ოსეთი, ( , ), officially the Republic of South Ossetia – the State of Alania, is a partially recognised landlocked state in the South Caucasus. It has an officially stated populat ...

during the 2000s. South Ossetia is a partially recognized

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. The Unity Party, founded in 2003, supported former

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Eduard Kokoity Eduard Dzhabeyevich Kokoyty ( os, Кокойты Джабейы фырт Эдуард, Kokojty Ĝabejy fyrt Edward; born 31 October 1964) is an Ossetian politician who served as President of the partially recognized state of South Ossetia. His t ...

, and was for a decade the largest political party in South Ossetia. After the

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, the party held 17 out of 34 seats in South Ossetia's parliament. It is modeled after and is closely linked to the

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party, with which it has signed an inter-party cooperation agreement. The party is a winner of the

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and

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parliamentary elections. It is currently led by

Zurab Kokoyev Zurab Revazovich Kokoyev (russian: Зураб Ревазович Кокоев, born 14 February 1959 in Tskhinvali, South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union Caucasian KnotProfile of Zurab Revazovich Kokoyev(12 May 2009)) is a So ...

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