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Anatoly Bibilov
Anatoly Bibilov
Бибылты Анатолий; Анатолий Бибилов
	Bibilov in 2018
4th President of South Ossetia
	In office; 21 April 2017 – 24 May 2022
Prime Minister	Domenty Kulumbegov; Erik Pukhayev; Gennady Bekoyev;
Preceded by	Leonid Tibilov
Succeeded by	Alan Gagloev
Speaker of the Parliament
	In office; 24 June 2014 – 21 April 2017
Preceded by	Stanislav Kochiev
Succeeded by	Inal Mamiev
Personal details
Born	13 January 1970 (age 54); Tskhinvali, South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, Georgian SSR, USSR
Political party	United Ossetia
Alma mater	Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School
Military service
Branch/service	Soviet Army; Armed Forces of South Ossetia; Russian Airborne Troops
Years of service	Soviet Union (1988—1991); Russia (1991—1994); South Ossetia (1994—1996); Russia (1998—2008)
Rank	Lieutenant General

Anatoly Ilyich Bibilov (Ossetian: Бибылты Ильяйы фырт Анатолий, romanized: Bibylty Iljajy fyrt Anatolij; Ossetian pronunciation: [ˈbibəltə iˈlʲajə fərt anaˈtolij], Russian: Анато́лий Ильи́ч Биби́лов; born 6 February 1970) is a South Ossetian military officer, was the fourth president of South Ossetia. He succeeded Leonid Tibilov as president on 21 April 2017 to 24 May 2022, following his election victory, but was defeated by Alan Gagloev in the 2022 election.

Biography

Bibilov was born in the South Ossetian AO of the Georgian SSR in the Soviet Union.^[1] After eight grade he went to a boarding school in Tbilisi with intensive military and physical training, thereafter he joined the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School.^[1] After graduating, Bibilov was distributed to the 76th Guards Air Assault Division. His division was included in the consolidated battalion of peacekeepers in South Ossetia. Subsequently he joined the South Ossetian Army,^[1] commanding a special forces unit. Between the period 1998-2008 he rejoined the peacekeeping forces, this time in a North Ossetia battalion. Bibilov took an active part in the Russo-Georgian War, organizing the defence of one of the districts of Tskhinvali against the Georgian Armed Forces.^[1]

Politics

In October 2008 he was appointed Minister of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia. Bibilov was the presidential candidate for the Unity Party in the South Ossetian presidential election, 2011.^[1] He won the first round, but lost the runoff to Alla Dzhioyeva.

Soon however, the parliament of South Ossetia declared the elections invalid.^[2] Leonid Tibilov was ultimately elected president after winning the South Ossetian presidential election, 2012, which Bibilov did not participate in.^[1] In June 2014 he was elected as the president of the parliament of South Ossetia. He is currently the head of the United Ossetia party, which nominated him for their candidate to the South Ossetian presidential election, 2017.^[3] Bibilov won the election in the first round by getting 54.8% of the vote and took office as the 4th president of South Ossetia on 21 April 2017.^[4]^[5] During his inauguration, delegations from the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and Russia were present.^[6]

Bibilov supports South Ossetia joining Russia,^[7]^[8] and has called for a referendum on the issue.^[9]

One of the controversies of Bibilov's late tenure would be the Ministry of Construction's construction of a gym for the secondary school of Tsinagari. The School's director, former Member of Parliament Lasko Gussoev was able to bring the issue to national prominence stating that the Ministry of Construction built the gym, but did not install a transformer or other electoral components rendering the gym inoperable. It would take over 2 years of Gussoev's lobbying and significant media coverage before the gym was completed.^[10]

Bibilov was defeated by Alan Gagloyev in the 2022 election.^[11]

Cabinet

During his tenure as President, Bibilov's cabinet consisted of the following:

Position	Name
Minister of Culture	Zhanna Zasseeva^[12]
Minister of the Economy	Gennady Kokoev^[12]
Minister of Education	Natali Gasieva (2017-2021)^[12]
Minister of Emergency Situations	Alan Tadtaev^[12]
Minister of Finance	Aza Khabalova^[12]
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Dmitry Medoev^[12]
Minister of Justice	Zalina Lalieva^[12]

Sanctions

In September 2015, he was included in the sanctions list of Ukraine. Bibilov was recognized as a person who creates "real and/or potential threats to national interests, national security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine." Bibilov probably fell under this definition because of repeated visits to the unrecognized DPR and LPR, as well as to Crimea.^[13]