Executive Branch

Eduard Kokoity, President of South Ossetia

Government of South Ossetia

Hassan Soslanovich Pliev, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government

Taimuraz Arahmatovich Chochiev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade

Nugzar Antonovich Gabaraev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Development

Eleonora Hristoforovna Bedoeva, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Youth, Sport and Tourism

Inal Vladimirovich Puxaev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

Murat Kuzmich Dzhioev, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Yuri Anvarovich Tanaev, Minister of Defence

Valery Pavlovich Valiev, Minister of Internal Affairs

Anatoly Ilich Bibilov, Minister of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters

Atsamaz Ivanovich Bichenov, Minister of Justice

Alan Hadzhimurzaevich Koliev, Minister of Transport and Road Management

Georgij Sergeevich Kabisov, Minister of Communications and Information

Igor Yurevich Beppiev, Minister of Economic Development

Sergei Vladimirovich Parastaev, Minister of state property and land relations

Vitaly Grigorievich Dzeranov, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology

Dzhambolat Iosivovich Kozaev, Minister of Agriculture and Food

Anatoly Georgievich Kusraev, Minister of Education and Science

Tamerlan Efimovich Dzudtsov, Minister of Culture

Irina Yureva Gagloeva, Minister of Press and Mass Communications

Legislative Branch

The Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia is the nation's lawmaking body, consisting of 34 MPs, representing all citizens.

Stanislav Kochiev, Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia

Stanislav Kochiev has been the Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia since 2009. He also served as Speaker of Parliament from 1999-2004. In 1993 he founded the Communist Party of South Ossetia and serves as first secretary of the Central Committee. As leader of South Ossetia's supreme legislative body, Kochiev supports the economic development of South Ossetia through closer ties with Russia and North Ossetia, nationalization of industry, and stronger ties within the former Soviet bloc nations.

Judicial Branch

The Supreme Court of South Ossetia is the highest judicial body in the republic.