Anatoliy Bibilov Бибылты Анатолий Анатолий Бибилов |
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President of South Ossetia Elect |
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Taking office 19 April 2017 |
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Prime Minister | Domenty Kulumbegov |
Succeeding | Leonid Tibilov |
Minister of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia | |
Assumed office October 31, 2008 |
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President of the Parliament of South Ossetia | |
Assumed office June 24, 2014 |
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Preceded by | Stanislav Kochiev |
Personal details | |
Born |
Tskhinvali, Soviet Union |
6 February 1970
Nationality | Russian/South Ossetian |
Political party | United Ossetia |
Children | 3 sons, 2 daughters |
Alma mater | Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, State Fire Academy of Emercom of Russia |
Anatoliy Ilyich Bibilov (Ossetian: Бибылты Ильяйы фырт Анатолий; Russian: Анатолий Ильич Бибилов (born February 6, 1970) is a Russian and South Ossetian military officer, who was elected president in 2017.
Bibilov was born in the South Ossetian AO of the Georgian SSR in the Soviet Union. After eight grade he went to a boarding school in Tbilsi with intensive military and physical training, thereafter he joined the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School. 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, 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 2008 South Ossetian war, organizing the defence of one of the districts of Tskhinvali against the Georgian Armed Forces.
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. He won the first round, but lost the runoff to Alla Dzhioyeva. Soon however, the parliament of South Ossetia declared the elections invalid. Leonid Tibilov was ultimately elected president after winning the South Ossetian presidential election, 2012 which Bibilov didn't participate in. 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. Bibilov won the election in the first round by getting 54.8% of the vote and will be taking office as the 4th president of South Ossetia on the 19 April 2017.