Yury Ionovich Morozov (russian: Юрий Ионович Морозов; born 5 August 1949
in
Sterlitamak
Sterlitamak ( rus, Стерлитама́к, p=stʲɪrlʲɪtɐˈmak; ba, Стәрлетамаҡ, translit=Stärletamaq; ) is the second largest city in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the left bank of the Belaya River (Kama's ...
,
Bashkir ASSR
The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( ba, Башҡорт Автономиялы Совет Социалистик Республикаhы; russian: Башкирская Автономная Советская Социалистиче ...
,
Russian SFSR,
USSR[ Ossetia.ru]
Russian Yury Morozov is new PM of South Ossetia
(5 July 2005)) is a
Russian businessman
and politician, and a former
Prime Minister of
South Ossetia. Morozov was confirmed by the
Parliament of South Ossetia
The Parliament of South Ossetia is the unicameral legislature of the partially recognized Republic of South Ossetia. The 34 members of parliament are elected using a mixed system of Party-list proportional representation (17) and single-member di ...
on 5 July 2005. 23 Out of 24 MPs present voted in favour of his candidacy. On 18 August 2008, it was announced that Morozov and his government had been dismissed by South Ossetian President
Eduard Kokoity. Kokoity said he thought the government was not handling the emergency aid from Russia, which was arriving after the
2008 South Ossetia war
The 2008 Russo-Georgian WarThe war is known by a variety of other names, including Five-Day War, August War and Russian invasion of Georgia. was a war between Georgia, on one side, and Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of Sou ...
, good enough.
According to accounts of several South Ossetian military and political leaders, Morozov fled
Tskhinval at onset of
Georgian attack.
Anatoly Bibilov, then deputy commander of North Ossetian peacekeeping battalion, claimed that already at 5 am of 8 August 2008 (6 hours after the bombardment of Tskhinval had started), Morozov was in
Vladikavkaz.
[http://www.rospres.com/government/3122/ ] Boris Chochiev
Boris Yeliozovich Chochiev (Russian: Борис Елиозович Чочиев; os, Цоциты Елиозы фырт Барис; 1 November 1957 – 22 July 2021) was a South Ossetian politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 2008.
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, then Deputy Prime Minister of South Ossetia, has also claimed that when he connected with Morozov on the phone on 8 August and asked to help organize evacuation of women and children, Morozov was in Vladikavkaz and effectively declined any responsibility, exclaiming "F## you and your children!"
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1949 births
Living people
People from Sterlitamak
Prime Ministers of South Ossetia
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