The de facto leader of Georgia’s Russian-occupied South Ossetia region, Alan Gagloyev, resigned Tuesday to become an advisor to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, just weeks after the ratification of an integration agreement between the breakaway region and Moscow. Gagloyev, who took office in 2022, announced his resignation in a video address to citizens, as reported by South Ossetian state news agency RES, stating he would immediately begin work in the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “Today our task is to ensure that our cherished dream comes true – to overcome the fate of a divided people and reunite with North Ossetia, reunite with Great Russia,” Gagloyev said. “I have given my support to our historic leader, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and I am ready to stand alongside him.” In accordance with the republic’s Constitution, Prime Minister Marat Kambolov – a former Moscow bureaucrat from Russia’s North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia – was named interim president. Moscow’s integration push Gagloyev said Putin personally proposed the advisory role during a meeting the day before his official resignation, asking him to help implement the Treaty on Deepening Allied Interaction with Russia, signed on May 9. Under the agreement, South Ossetia committed to gradually align its civil, tax, labor, and social legislation with Russia’s, while Moscow agreed to provide social guarantees, improved living standards, and pension support for the republic’s citizens.