Cross access into the country on the grounds of the organizations inefficiency. In 2014 he came out in support of a treaty with Russia which would place the Armed Forces of South Ossetia under de facto Russian control and make the borders between Russia and South Ossetia more transparent. His support for the treaty stemmed from the economic bonuses. However, he denounced the fact the treaty was being created behind closed doors and will not be reviewed by the people of South Ossetia. In 2016 and 2017 Gobozov supported renaming the official name of South Ossetia to Republic of South Ossetia – the State of Alania, but decried the lack of an official referendum and the lack of public consultation on the wording of the official name of the republic. Lecturer Following his departure from the government he has worked as a political analysist and as the senior lecturer of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the South Ossetian State University and gave a lecture to the visiting staff of the Donetsk National University. In his lecture he decried Georgia's monopoly over information regarding the Russo-Georgian War and South Ossetia's sovereignty. In 2020 he supported renaming Tskhinvali to Stalinir not because of any ideological reason, but because that is the name that most inhabitants of the city already use and it is a symbol of South Ossetian identity. In 2021 during the political crisis of that year which saw 14 members of the 32 member parliament refused to attend sessions, effectively paralyzing government, he stated that this was not the first crisis of this type. He went on to say that whenever prior crisis came political reforms where promised that never ended up being implemented. References South Ossetian politicians Members of the Parliament of South Ossetia Government ministers of South Ossetia Fatherland Socialist Party politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Living people