Archive - 2011

Today the new Central Election Committee of the Republic has started its work in South Ossetia. As the Chairman of the Central Election Committee Bella Plieva has informed the news agency "Res", the committee-men held their first session, where the Vice-Chairman and the Secretary were elected. Plieva has noticed that along with establishing the Central Election Committee the presidential election campaign also started in the Republic. The elections will take place in November, 2011 «We are ready to carry out both the presidential elections and the referendum in November.

The Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Narim Kozaev has paid an official visit to Caracas. It has been informed by the press-service of the RSO Foreign Ministry. On August, 30 Narim Kozaev was received at the Foreign Ministry of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. During the meeting the Ambassador has transferred the copies of credentials to the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela.

Since August, 23rd the field hospital of the All-Russia Medical Centre of Accidents "Protection" has been functioning in Leningorskiy district of South Ossetia. Physicians of the largest medical centers of Russia are rendering medical aid not only to inhabitants of the district. The local population is pleased with the opportunity to receive the free of charge aid of the Russian experts. As reported by the news agency "Res[i]" neuropathologists and cardiologists are in great demand among the population of the district. «Besides experts of all directions are working in the hospital.

Today the International day of the missing people is marked in South Ossetia. The Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the RSO on human rights David Sanakoev has told the correspondent of the news agency "Res" about the work on finding out the fate of the missing citizens of South Ossetia, «For today 150 persons are considered as the missing ones since 1989 - 2008, - Sanakoev has said. -More than 100 citizens disappeared in the territory of South Ossetia. The others –are the ethnic Ossetians who lived in the territory of Georgia and disappeared there».

Today, on August, 29, within the frames of celebrating the Independence Recognition Day of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation, the role of Russia in the process of preserving peace and stability in the Southern Caucasus has been discussed at the round table organized by the South-Ossetian branch of the noncommercial organization of the Development Fund -the «Institute of the Eurasian Researches» in Tskhinval.

The South-Ossetian free-style wrestler Inal Tasoev has become the bronze prize-winner of the World championship which has come to the end in Budapest on free-style wrestling among the sportsmen born in 1994-1995. It has been reported to the news agency "Res" by the trainer of the athlete Tamerlan Kochiev. «Tasoev has struggled in a weight category to 100 kg. He had four fights.

South Ossetia three years later after the independence recognition

Opinion: Kazbulat Tskhovrebov, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the RSO:

On August, 26 the third anniversary of the independence recognition of the Republic of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation is celebrated. It has been done much on the international scene for the last years. Priority direction of our foreign policy is cooperation strengthening with the Russian Federation.

The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and the President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity have discussed the questions of bilateral relations strengthening at the meeting in the Sochi residence of the Russian leader. The negotiations have passed on the threshold of the third anniversary of independence recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Russia. During the negotiations the presidents of two countries have emphasized the questions of strengthening bilateral interaction and the international issues connected with development of South Ossetia.

Questions of strengthening and development of friendly relations between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Belarus and the prospects of mutually advantageous economic cooperation were discussed in Tskhinval during the meeting of the People`s Party management of the Republic of South Ossetia with delegation of the Liberal-Democratic Party management of the Republic of Belarus, led by a member of the Supreme Council of the LDP, the Vice-President of the LDP, the Chairman of the Minsk LDP city organization Alexey Demeshko.

On August, 26, 2011 a round table «The third anniversary of the international recognition: political and legal grounds for independence of the Republic of South Ossetia» with participation of representatives of the Ossetian diasporas of France, Belgium and Holland, organized by the International association of the Ossetian societies "Renaissance" will be held in Paris. The action is timed to the state holiday of South Ossetia - Independence Recognition Day.