Yury Ionovich Morozov (; born 5 August 1949) is a Russian businessman and politician, and a former Prime Minister of South Ossetia. Morozov was confirmed by the Parliament of South Ossetia on 5 July 2005. 23 Out of 24 MPs present voted in favour of his candidacy. On 18 August 2008, it was announced that Morozov and his government had been dismissed by South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity. Kokoity said he thought the government was not handling the emergency aid from Russia, which was arriving after the 2008 South Ossetia war, good enough.
According to accounts of several South Ossetian military and political leaders, Morozov fled Tskhinvali at onset of Georgian attack. Anatoly Bibilov, then deputy commander of North Ossetian peacekeeping battalion, claimed that already at 5 am of 8 August 2008 (6 hours after the bombardment of Tskhinvali had started), Morozov was in Vladikavkaz. Boris Chochiev, then Deputy Prime Minister of South Ossetia, has also claimed that when he connected with Morozov on the phone on 8 August and asked to help organize evacuation of women and children, Morozov was in Vladikavkaz and effectively declined any responsibility, exclaiming "F## you and your children!"
Cabinet Office IncumbentPrime MinisterYury Ionovich MorozovHead of Administration of the PresidentEduard Sergeevich KotaevDeputy Prime MinisterBoris Eliozovich ChochievMinister of HealthDzhemal Vahtangovich DzhigkaevMinister of Youth, Sport and TourismRufin Burdimovich DzhioevMinister of FinanceAza Konstantinovna KhabalovaMinister of Foreign AffairsMurat Kuzmich DzhioevMinister of Defence and EmergenciesAnatoly Konstantinovich BarankevichMinister of Internal AffairsMikhail Mindzayev MayramovichMinister of JusticeMerab Ilyich ChigoevMinister of Transport and Road ManagementRudolf Andreevich ChovrebovMinister of Economy and Foreign Economic RelationsRodion Inalovich DzhussoevMinister of Natural ResourcesAtarbeg Ismailovich TedeyevMinister of Agriculture, Land and Water Resources Aleksandr Ilyich PukhaevMinister of EducationAlla Alekseevna DzhioevaMinister of CultureKonstantin Petrovich Pukhaev Source:
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