Timur Tskhovrebov is a journalist, politician, and civil rights activist from the disputed state of South Ossetia, which the international community recognizes as part of Georgia.
[1] Tskhovrebov first entered the public sphere in South Ossetia when he, a local tomato farmer, organized a ten-man Ossetian militia during the First Ossetian War, bribing Soviet personnel to loot military warehouses, using the surplus equipment to trade for civilian goods and luxuries in North Ossetia.
Tskhovrebov was able to escape after a gun was pulled on him, and jumped a fence to enter the nearby Red Cross compound close to parliament.
[3] Tskhovrebov's attack was retaliation for his signing of a document supporting the resolutions of the Geneva International Discussions (GID).
[6] In 2018 Tskhovrebov led a movement demanding more domestic Industry in South Ossetia, which is almost wholly reliant from imports from Russia.