Today in Tskhinval President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov has declared at the meeting with the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions that the Georgian side is conducting intensive preparations for a war around the perimeter of the border with South Ossetia.
Co-Chairs of the Geneva discussions on Security in Transcaucasia, arrived today in South Ossetia on a working visit, have met in Tskhinval with the South Ossetian negotiators.
Opening the meeting, the Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev expressed the hope that this visit would further strengthen security in the region, and the parties would be satisfied with the work done.
One of the most popular topics in the Georgian media is the strategic command-staff maneuvers "Caucasus-2012", which has started today, September 17, 2012. Georgian media regularly publish the articles and broadcast the discussions associated with these maneuvers. The main objective of these broadcastsis to suggest an idea to the Georgian and international community that after such maneuvers in 2008 Georgia became involved in a war with Russia and has lost 20% of its original territory occupied by Moscow. The fact that in August 2008 it was the Georgian army which attacked the Russian peacekeepers, who had been serving in accordance with the interstate Dagomys agreement and it was Georgia, which tried to wipe the South Ossetian capital together with its inhabitants off the map, has not been even indirectly mentioned in the Georgian media.
September 18 is expected the visit of the delegation of the Co-Chairmen of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia to South Ossetia.
As IA "Res" has been informed at the office of the presidential envoy for post-conflict settlement, the delegation will include the co-chairs of the EU, UN and OSCE- Philippe Lefort, Antti Turunen and Podrig Murphy, as well as representatives of the international organizations.
Preparations for the festivities for the Republic Day have been discussed at the extending meeting of President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov with the heads of the ministries and agencies.
Jhanna Zasseeva has presented information on the program prepared by the organizing committee for celebrations.
According to her, the celebrations will begin tomorrow - in the secondary and higher educational institutions will be conducted the history lessons. The history of state formation of South Ossetia will be told by the politicians and public figures who took an active part in this process.
An exhibition of works by the Ossetian artists "The Alans Parallels" is taking place in Budapest (Hungary).
As the head of the International nonprofit association «Renaissance Saendidzaen» Radion Pukhaev has reported the news agency "Res", the exhibition is devoted to the Ossetian-Jassic cultural and historical ties.
The Ossetian mixed martial arts fighter Alan Gigolaev has successfully defended his title of the state of Georgia (USA) in the weight class up to 70 kilograms in the battle against the American fighter Marcus Jackson.
An official delegation of South Ossetia will participate in the XI International Investment Forum to be held in Sochi on September 20-23.
As the Head of the Social and Economic Planning of the Ministry of Economic Development of South Ossetia Inna Grunvald reported IA "Res" South Ossetia would present two innovative investment projects.
Georgian authorities, alarmed by the rapid growth of popularity of the opposition politician and influential businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, are not tired to organize propaganda campaign against him.
An athlete from Tskhinval Akhsar Tadtaev took the third place in the Thai boxing championship of Russia among athletes born in 1997-1998. The tournament is being held in Anapa within the frames of the V-th Open All- Russian Youth Martial Arts Games.