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The tenth meeting of representatives of the South Ossetian and Georgian civil society was being held on January 11-14, 2012 in the town of Bethlehem (Israel) within the framework of social dialogue "Viewpoint." This has been reported to IA "Res" by one of the participants of the meeting, the Chairman of the South Ossetian Women's Association for Democracy and Human Rights Lira Tskhovrebova. According to her, the meetings are conducted by the Faculty of Analysis and Conflict Resolution at the George Mason University since December 2008. "No any political issues are discussed at these meetings; each participant has his own position.

The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia has registered the initiative group for nominating a candidate for the presidency Georgy Kabisov. As reported to IA "Res" by the CEC of South Ossetia, the initiative group was registered on January 14 and became eligible to begin collecting 1000 signatures in support of its nominated candidate. It should be noted that Georgy Kabisov (earlier holding a post of the Chairman of the State Committee of Information, Communication and Mass Media of South Ossetia) participated in the presidential elections on November, 13, 2011, but didn`t reach the presidential run-off, gaining 7.5% of the vote.

The pupil of the South Ossetian School of boxing, the world-class athlete Robert Pliev has been appointed to the post of the head coach in boxing of the Public and State Athletic and Sports Association "Youth of Russia". "I am grateful to the management of the sports organization
"Youth of Russia" for their high confidence and I'll try to do everything to justify it," - Pliev said to IA "Res". According to the trainer, he is currently in the North-Ossetian village Fiagdon. "Here, along with the leading coaches of the senior high team on boxing of the Russian Federation Viktor Volkov and Sergey Ryzhkov, we are holding the training camp for junior members of the Russian national team - Robert Pliev has underlined. - And January 15 I will fly to Moscow and take up my duties in my new job.

The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia is addressing to the initiative groups on nominating presidential candidates with a request to inform the Central Election Committee about holding their meetings, where a decision on nomination of any candidate is made.

The Central Election Committee accepted a second package of documents from a group of citizens, nominating George Kabisov as the presidential candidate in the upcoming elections on March 25. As reported to IA "Res" by the RSO CEC representative, "the package will be reviewed within legally established time ".

Today in South Ossetia Christmas is being celebrated, as well as throughout the Orthodox world. On the night of January 7 in Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Tskhinval, the night Christmas liturgy was chanted by the opposing Greek Old Calendar Church representative, the Bishop Ambrose Mefonsky.

Recently voices for OSCE admission to South Ossetia have once again been heard from Tbilisi. This organization was working in our country during 15 years. The period from 1993 to 2008 was quite enough to understand its essence. What the OSCE means for South Ossetia knows everyone: false provocative and actually inciting to attacking us, slanderous fabrications under the pretext of «objective reports on a situation in a conflict zone».

Genocide: as it was. 21 year later
Christmas of 1991 added a bloody page in the history of Ossetia.
January, 6, 1991 – is the beginning of the overt armed aggression of Georgia against the people of South Ossetia. On the night of January, 6 internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, which had had to support stability, without notice of the Republican leadership deserted their posts and went to the barracks. At 4 o'clock in the morning 3-thousand group of the Georgian militia among which there were the Georgian gunmen, criminals and addicts, amnestied the day before and disguised as militiamen, entered the town. They had considerable quantity of military equipment and dogs. Georgian "militia" occupied the central part of the town, blocked all roads and crossroads. Tortures, arrests, violence, murders, arsons began. In the afternoon of January, 6 the Georgian "militiamen" opened fire on the unarmed people. One man was killed, several were wounded. Their first victim became Kochiev Grisha Fedorovich, 32 years old, an inhabitant of Tskhinval, who under fire had covered his children with his body. The same night four persons were also wounded.

South Ossetian State Theatre named after Costa Khetagurov has prepared a New Year theater program for residents of the Republic. As reported to IA "Res" by the art director of the Theater Soslan Bibilov, the holiday show for the South Ossetian spectators began January 3, 2012 and will continue until the Old New Year.

Acting President of South Ossetia has addressed to people of the Republic with the New Year congratulation. First of all, V. Brovtsev has reminded that, in view of the prevailing socio-political situation, December 11, 2011, he was charged with the duty of the head of the state, and he intends to carry out his powers strictly within the legal boundaries, in accordance with the Constitution of South Ossetia.