Archive - 3/2012

March 21 the Acting President of South Ossetia Vadim Brovtsev and the Russian Regional Development Minister Viktor Basargin signed in Moscow a protocol of the meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on economic and social cooperation between the Republic of South Ossetia and Russia, which was held in early March. As reported to IA "Res" by the press service of the President and the government of South Ossetia, the issues of reconstruction and equipping the resuscitation unit of the Republican somatic hospital in Tskhinval have been discussed during the signing. "More than 60 million rubles were allocated for this purpose.

The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia appealed to the citizens of the Republic to show active civic stand and to take part in the re-election of the president on Sunday, March 25. Such appeal was addressed to the population of the Republic by the Chairman of the CEC of South Ossetia Bella Plieva at a briefing in Tskhinval. The CEC Chairman asked the observers and the representatives of the candidates having the right of signature on the ballots to comply with the current standards of the electoral legislation at the polls and do not go beyond their duties."The signature authorization representatives should only deal with putting their signatures on the reverse side of the ballot. Observers in the November, 2011 election, which were checking practically each voter`s passport, had no such authority. They could only observe what was happening at the poll.

Webcams will be installed in the Information Centre of the Central Electoral Committee of South Ossetia. This has been reported to IA "Res" by the CEC Chairman Bella Plieva.
" Webcams will be installed at the entrance and in the premises of the CEC Information Center in order to ensure the maximum transparency of its work", - said Plieva.

Embassy of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation has announced that due to the scheduled for March 25, 2012 re-run elections of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia and in accordance with the decision of the Central Election Committee, a polling station number 85 for the voting citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia, living or temporarily staying in Moscow will be opened in the Embassy.

A round table has been held in Tskhinval, where it was discussed the idea of creating a new political party named "For civic dignity." The organizer of the round table was "Association of the South Ossetian Women for Democracy and Human Rights." According to the president of the "Association of the South Ossetian Women for Democracy and Human Rights" Lira Tskhovrebova, one of the objectives of the new party will be promoting development of the civil society. "Thanks to the activities of our association, we were able to give analytical material to position of women in society, to the state of civil society, and now thanks to creation of a new party, we will be able to improve the situation in these areas," - said Tskhovrebova.

The new high-tech equipment will be commissioned this summer in the Bagiata bottling plant. As IA "Res" has been informed by the Economic Development Minister of the RSO Alexei Khabalov, purchased in 2011 a new line for bottling mineral water is able to produce six thousand bottles per hour. "This line will be ten times more powerful than the present one. There is no room in the plant, so we decided to build a hangar. In the coming days representatives of the supplier from Melitopol will arrive in South Ossetia". According to Khabalov, for supplying the Russian market with the plant production the mineral water should be produced in glass bottles.

Acting President of South Ossetia Vadim Brovtsev considers as the "good sign" an appointment of Taimuraz Mamsurov a special envoy of the Russian President in South Ossetia.
"Two fraternal republics are linked historically. One nation is living in North and South Ossetia. I am convinced, that now, after the appointment of the head of the neighboring republic Taimuraz Mamsurov as the special envoy of the Russian President, good links between our country and Russia will be more strengthened. This is a good sign,"- told Brovtsev.

April 8 in Moscow a renowned South Ossetian professional boxer Aslanbek Kozaev will fight the 12-round bout for the title of European Champion in the weight class up to 66.6 kg according to WBC (World Boxing Council). As IA "Res" has been informed by the coach of the athlete Vitaly Slanov, "the rival of Aslanbek will be the 25-year-old Belarusian fighter Andrei Abramenko, who is the Eastern Europe champion in professional boxing under the WBC version, - said Slanov. – He is a very strong fighter. He has fought 21 professional boxing bouts and has won 20 of them. Only in one bout he was defeated by the famous boxer Matthew Hatton."

Presidential candidate Dmitry Medoev suggested the famous European scientist and public figure Giulietto Chiesa to represent the interests of South Ossetia in Europe. This has been reported to IA "Res" at the headquarters of the candidate. This proposal was declared by the candidate at the meeting with his supporters, which was also attended by Giulietto Chiesa.

All the polling stations in the regions of South Ossetia are ready for re-election of the President of South Ossetia. As IA "Res" has been informed by the head of the Central Election Committee of South Ossetia Bella Plieva, "the CEC representatives went to the districts of Leningor and Tskhinval of the Republic and examined all the polls. In the near future we will also check the districts of Dzau and Znaur where, according to the chairmen of the territorial election committees, all the polling stations are also ready for the elections. Check-lists are also prepared, and now the invitations are being sent out to the voters".