The government of South Ossetia

South Ossetia

South Ossetia or Tskhinvali Region is a disputed region and partly recognized state in the South Caucasus, located in the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic....

 issues its own license plates for the vehicles registered on the territory it controls. The design of the plates is based on one of the Soviet standard

GOST

GOST refers to a set of technical standards maintained by the Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification , a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States .All sorts of regulated standards are included, with examples...

 for license plates (GOST 3207-77).

The license plates are black-on-white. The standard format is four digits followed by Cyrillic

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

 letters ЮОР (Юго-Осетинская Республика, Russian for South Ossetian Republic). This system provides just 9999 possible combinations.

On the territory controlled by the government of Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 the Georgian license plates

Vehicle registration plates of Georgia (country)

Vehicle registration plates of Georgia are composed of an embossed serial of three letters, a hyphen and three numbers , in black on a white background. The plates are issued in the Latin alphabet. Georgian license plates are the same size as the most common European license plate...

(till 2008) were used. Since 2004 cars with South Ossetian license plates have not been permitted to enter the territory controlled by the government of Georgia, while the Georgian license plates remain forbidden on the territory of South Ossetia.