The parliament of breakaway South Ossetia approved Vadim Brovtsev as new head of the government on August 5.

Brovtsev, who replaced on the post former Russian tax official Aslanbek Bulatsev, is a general director of a Chelyabinsk-based construction firm Vermikulit. According to Russian daily Kommersant, this company is among those construction firms engaged in Olympic infrastructure constructions in Sochi.