Archive - 7/5/2022

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov has met with a delegation of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation headed by Sergei Tsekov, member of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, who arrived in the Republic as international observers for the presidential election on May 8.

First of all, Anatoly Bibilov congratulated the members of the delegation on the upcoming Victory Day, after which he discussed with the guests the electoral procedure in South Ossetia.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov has met with a delegation of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, which arrived in the Republic as international observers for the presidential elections on May 8, the press service of the head of state reports.

A ban on election campaigning before the presidential elections on May 8 came into force in South Ossetia on Saturday.

According to the electoral legislation of the Republic, on May 7 at 00.00 the term for election campaigning, allotted by law, expired, this applies to television and radio broadcasts, all print media, posting leaflets and hanging banners, as well as meetings of candidates with voters. During the period of the pre-election campaign before the re-run of presidential elections, three rounds of debates took place between the candidates on local television.

The highest military state award, the Order of "Uatsamonga" in South Ossetia, was posthumously awarded to serviceman Alim Lokhov, who had perished during the special operation in Ukraine. He was buried on Friday with military honors in his family village of Khetagurovo.

The decree on awarding (posthumously) Alim Lokhov with the "Order of Huatsamong" for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty was signed by President Anatoly Bibilov.