Archive - 11/2013

November 15 - 22 the Border Service of KGB of South Ossetia was considering the cases against four people. Three citizens of Georgia and a citizen of the RSO were detained on November 21 for violation of the state border.
"The case of a citizen of South Ossetia in the near future will be considered in court. Residents of the Georgian village of Tseronisi in Kareli district Alexi Arsenadze and Georgi Tedeshvili were fined 2000 rubles," - said the KGB press-service official.
Currently is being considered the issue of their expulsion from the territory of South Ossetia.
Another citizen of Georgia is under investigation.
According to the press service of the Russian Border Control agency in South Ossetia, November11 - 22, the border guards detained four violators of the state border and 1 violator of the border regime near the villages of Balta, Dzvilet and Artsev.
After drawing up protocols on administrative violations, the detainees were handed over to the Border Service of the KGB of the Republic of South Ossetia.
In addition, during this period were discovered two caches of weapons and ammunition near the villages of Balta and Mugut. The KGB operatives of South Ossetia removed one carbine with cartridges and a heavy caliber machine gun "Utes."

Representatives of the Ossetian diaspora in Turkey, arrived in Tskhinval on a working visit, met with the rector of South-Ossetian State University. The delegation has included the Deputy Chairman of the Ossetian community in Turkey Jale Pukhaty and the owner of one of the central clinics in Istanbul Muzaffer Khuysaty with his wife. The guests were accompanied by Advisor to the Chairman of the Government of the Republic of North Ossetia- Alania Nelly Pukhaeva. Representatives of the Ossetian diaspora met with the rector of the university Vadim Tedeev. He thanked the guests for their attention to the problems of South Ossetian State University, as well as for the ongoing work on preservation and development of the Ossetian language among the Turkish ethnic Ossetians.
Tedeev has expressed confidence that the cooperation with the Turkish Ossetians, students will yield positive results in the development of friendly relations between the two countries.
"We will be glad to host students from Turkey, so that they could learn better the history of their ancestors, their culture and traditions, language. We can also conduct online conferences with members of the Ossetian diaspora, "- said the rector of the South Ossetian State University.
In turn, Jale Pukhaty reported on the activities of the Ossetian diaspora in Turkey. She has stressed that lately the ethnic Ossetians in Turkey have the opportunity to promote their language and culture of their ancestors.
" So it would be great if the young people, the students were able to communicate, to exchange experience. A lot of young people in Turkey are interested in Ossetian national dances, songs, and the Ossetian language, but we do not have specialists who could teach the young people ", - she said.
The meeting also discussed the possibility of holding a variety of joint activities.

South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov has received representatives of the Ossetian Diaspora in Turkey: the Deputy Chairman of the Ossetian community in Turkey Jale Pukhaty and the owner of one of the central clinics in Istanbul Muzaffer Khuysaty with his wife, arrived in South Ossetia on a working visit.

South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov held a working meeting with the Government of the Republic, the leadership of the City Hall and the South Ossetian State University (South Ossetian State University).

Representatives of the South Ossetian youth public organization "Sunrise", headed by its Chairman, Michael Kochiev, took part in the International Youth Conference "Youth, Parliamentarianism and Eurasian Integration, " held in Moscow on November 14.

South Ossetian teacher of Russian language and literature Alla Muldarova has become a prize winner of the international contest "The best teacher of Russian literature abroad," held in Moscow on November 15 - 19. As Alla Muldarova said in her interview with the news agency "Res" the competition was held by Rossotrudnichestvo within the framework of the federal target program "Russian Language" for 2011 - 2015.

Development of small and medium-sized business in South Ossetia is the primary task, the decision of which is linked to the development of the economy as a whole, said IA "Res" the head of the Department of small and medium entrepreneurship of the Ministry of Economic Development of South Ossetia Pavel Kumaritov.

The South Ossetian authorities handed over to the Georgian side a citizen of Georgia Temur Gagloev, previously convicted for violation of the state border.
As the news agency "Res" has been reported at the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia, Gagloev was handed over to the authorities of Georgia on November 15 in the border village of Ergneti in the course of the meeting in the format of MPRI.
"In May 2013 Gagloev was detained for illegal crossing of the state border of South Ossetia in Znaur district of South Ossetia. During the detention Gagloev explained that he asked for political asylum. He was granted a residence permit and refugee status," - said the KGB press -service official.
After six months of stay on the territory of South Ossetia, Gagloev within a group of offenders was again detained at attempt of illegal crossing the state border with Georgia.
For the second attempt of crossing the border Gagloev was deprived the status of refugee and sentenced to one year conditionally for illegal crossing of the state border.
Two months later it was decided to deport Gagloev to Georgia.
The press service of the RSO KGB noted that Gagloev - born in the Ochamchire district of Abkhazia, - lived on the territory of Georgia in the town of Gori.

South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov held a meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies. At the beginning of the meeting Leonid Tibilov has congratulated the participants on the holiday of Dzheorguyba (St. George's Day), noting that this day is one of the major national holidays for Ossetian people.
The meeting discussed the current situation in the Tskhinval penal colony from where on November 16 had escaped the felon. Leonid Tibilov has noted that one of the basic versions of the incident is that the criminal has accomplices among the employees of the penal colony.
The Minister of Justice of the Republic Murat Vaneev has assured that the officers on duty, whose criminal negligence led to the escape, will be severely punished and they will bear criminal responsibility.
According to the Minister, the Prosecutor General of the Republic began criminal proceedings, and the Interior Ministry is engaged in search actions on capturing the escapee. The Minister reiterated that all those responsible would be punished.
Interior Minister Akhsar Lavoev has reported that all the units of the Ministry have been mobilized and are currently ongoing the search actions to capture the felon.
During the meeting, Prosecutor General Merab Chigoev reported on the results of his working visit to the Russian Federation. According to him, after a meeting with the leadership of the RF General Prosecutor's Office has been signed a program for cooperation between the agencies for 2014-2015.
At the meeting was also discussed the investigation of criminal cases sent to the Russian Federation. In particular, Merab Chigoev noted that some of the persons involved in criminal cases in South Ossetia and declared wanted, Prosecutor General's Office had repeatedly announced wanted in the territory of Russia. Among them are the former Chairman of the National Bank Oleg Dzantuev and the Chairman of the Commercial Bank "Bon -Bank" Vladislav Kokoev, indicted in September.
"We are talking about 150 million rubles, which Dzantuev illegally transferred to "Bon –Bank," then the money disappeared," - said the Prosecutor General.
During the meeting, Leonid Tibilov drew attention to another problem - the problem with wrong parking.
The head of state has stressed that one can often observe how motorists park their cars at their homes, shops, institutions, penetrating into the sidewalks.
"Paving is not intended for driving. Passers-by, bypassing the obstruction, are often forced to go out into the street,"- said the president.
The head of state ordered the Interior Ministry to provide assistance to the town hall in solving this issue.

November 8 - 15 the Border Service of KGB of South Ossetia was considering the cases against six people, four of whom were detained for violation of the border regime in the frontier zone of the state border and two persons -for violation of the state border regime.
As IA "Res" has been informed at the press service of the KGB of the Republic, "there are five citizens of South Ossetia and one citizen of Georgia among the detainees."
The cases of five citizens of South Ossetia will soon be considered in court.
"A citizen of Georgia, a resident of the village of Takhtidziri, Kareli district Gabuev Dmitry is currently under investigation ", -said the press –service official.
He has added that the detained citizens of Georgia Giorgi Dedanashvili and Alexander Elizarov, subjected to administrative penalty, were fined 2000 rubles. Now the question of their expulsion from the territory of South Ossetia is under consideration.