Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the battlefield, who was norma ...

Ibrahim Alimbegovich Gazseev () is a South Ossetian military leader and government official. He served as the Minister of Defence of South Ossetia from 2016 to 2022.

Military career

He was born on 30 August 1978. He graduated from South Ossetian State University majoring in Physical Education in 2000 and again in 2013. Gazseyev was drafted into the

Armed Forces of South Ossetia The Armed Forces of South Ossetia is the military of the partially recognised state of South Ossetia. It includes an Army and an Air Corps. The South Ossetian Army was formed in 1992, and is the primary defense force in the breakaway republic of ...

in 1996. At the same time he was sworn in, he was sent for further military service in the special forces company of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and Defense. In 2012, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under the program of professional training for foreign specialists. In 2015, he got his master's degree from the

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) is a federal state-funded institution of higher education located in Moscow, Russia. With the merger of Academy of National Economy (ANE), Russian Academy ...

. After holding senior-level posts in the ministry, he was finally appointed as minister in September 2016. He was also a deputy of 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 d ...

in its 6th convocation. On 25 February 2022, he was dismissed from the post of Minister of Defense. Later, he attempted to participate in the

2022 South Ossetian presidential election Presidential elections were held in the disputed territory of South Ossetia on 10 April 2022. As none of the presidential nominees obtained at least 50% of the votes, a runoff was held on 8 May 2022, between the top two candidates, Alan Gagloe ...

against his former boss, saying that "as long as he remains a presidential candidate, he will simply not let us hold fair elections.”

Awards

He is a recipient of the following awards: *Medal "10 years of the Armed Forces of South Ossetia" (2003) *Medal "Defender of the Fatherland" (2005) * Uatsamonga Order (2008) *Medal "For Military Merit" (

Transnistria Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a Landlocked country, landlocked Transnistria conflict#International recognition of Transnistria, breakaway state internationally recogn ...

, 2006) *Medal "For Military Valor" (

Abkhazia Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a List of states with limited recognition, partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It cover ...

, 2012) *Medal "In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Republic of South Ossetia" (2015) *Medal "For Military Merit" (2015)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gazseev, Ibrahim 1978 births Living people South Ossetian military personnel Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration alumni