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The South Ossetian athletes have been invited to take part in the annual international tournament on wrestling in memory of the first Ossetian Champion of Europe ElkanTedeev. It has been informed IA "Res" by the coach of the complex children's sports school Vadim Bagaev.
"The competition will be held in the village Octyabrskoe (Prigorodny district of North Ossetia – Alania), from 17 to 18 November. They will be attended by the athletes of 1995-1996 birth - Bagaev said. - We are now at the training camp in Vladikavkaz.

The inside back of the passport cover of each citizen of South Ossetia, taken part in the presidential elections of South Ossetia on November 13, will be marked with the special stamp. It has been reported IA "Res" by the Central Election Committee Chairman Bella Plieva. According to her, a round seal of 1.5 cm diameter will be imprinted on the passport of each voted to have no opportunity to vote for the second time. "The stamp is already made and distributed to all polling stations. Everyone voted must get this mark in the passport and it does not in any way interfere with the passport in future.

Employees of the South Ossetian Republican Library named after Anakharsis will participate in the International Conference of the cultural sphere young professionals- «The initiative of the young" which will be held in Moscow from 23 to 25 November. It has been reported IA "Res" by the director of the Republican Library Valeria Kokoeva."The influence of the city cultural space on the development and formation of personality, what is cultural space of the city as a whole, formation of cultural needs and values of youth in a city will be discussed at the conference. The present and the future of the cultural institutions through eyes of the young professionals and users will also be discussed there,"- said Kokoeva.She has noted that the conference is supported by the Government and the Department of Culture of Moscow.

To order of the Central Election Committee a required number of ballots for presidential elections of South Ossetia have been printed in South Ossetia. It has been reported to IA "Res" by the Chairman of the CEC of South Ossetia Bella Plieva. "34 000 ballots have been printed for the population of South Ossetia. This number includes 3%, which we can print. Additional 1000 ballots are printed for Moscow, 700 - for Sukhum, as well as for two polls in the Upper Ruck for the citizens of South Ossetia, living in North Ossetia", - Plieva has said. She recalled that, according to the parliamentary elections in 2009, about 16 thousand citizens of South Ossetia are living in North Ossetia. And when calculating the number of ballots, CEC has come from this figure."We will not have any difficulties. All the remained ballot papers will be destroyed. They should be canceled, in accordance with the current legislation,"- Plieva has underlined.

In the period from 1 to November 9, 2011 employees of the FSS Border Control Agency of Russia in South Ossetia detained seven people for illegal crossing of the state border of South Ossetia: three of them - in Leningor District, 2 – in the settlement Dmenis of Tskhinval district and 2 - in Znaur District.

The changing political and military realities of the South Caucasus make it unlikely that implementation of the revanchist plans of the Georgian leadership and the military re-aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia. It has been declared by the South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity in his interview with the North Ossetian state company on television and radio "Alania".

South Ossetia will seek to unite with Russia and to create (initially) the union state. It has been declared by the South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity in his interview with the North Ossetian state company on television and radio "Alania". "Russia is building bilateral relations between us- the full-fledged, civilized, more than the good-neighborly relations.

On the eve of presidential elections in South Ossetia, a forum of supporters of the presidential candidate of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov "Ossetian breakthrough: unity, order and development", has been held in Tskhinval organized under the aegis of the Republican Political Party "Unity". Prominent politicians and public figures of South Ossetia and Russia gathered at the central square to support the candidacy of Anatoly Bibilov, as well as his supporters. The President of the RSO Eduard Kokoity, the Chairman of the Committee on the Duma International Affairs, a member of the faction "United Russia" Konstantin Kosachev, the head of North Ossetia - Alania Taymuraz Mamsurov, Deputy Chairman of the North Ossetian Parliament, Stanislav Kesaev, the Chairman of the Communist Party of South Ossetia Stanislav Kochiev, a poet-academician Nafi Dzhussoyty, Ambassador Extraordinary and Ambassador to the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation Dmitry Medoev, representatives of the State Duma, Federation Council, the Emergency Situations Ministry and others have appeared on the stage.

Delegation of the Russian Federation including the deputies of the Russian Federation State Duma, the Federation Council, the Cossacks, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia has arrived in South Ossetia. The delegation is headed by the Chairman of the Committee on the International Affairs of the State Duma, a member of fraction "United Russia" Konstantin Kosachev. The President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity and the Russian guests have visited the headquarters of the candidate for the RSO Presidency Anatoly Bibilov, where the meeting with him and the party "Unity" leadership has taken place.
At the beginning of the meeting Eduard Kokoity has greeted the visitors of the Republic, having expressed his gratitude to the party «United Russia» for its support. «The leading party of South Ossetia «Unity» has made its choice and has supported Anatoly Bibilov as the presidential nominee of the Republic in the forthcoming elections.

Celebration in honour of the young athlete Kharebov Ibragim, who in October of the current year became the freestyle wrestling champion of England, has been held in the village Dzau in Dzausky district of South Ossetia. The head of the local administration Kumaritov Pavel has congratulated the athlete with the victory; he has also handed him a cash bonus and wished him further success in sport. "I arrived in England in May 2011. I was being trained there by the coach Nikolai Korneev. And in October 9 I won the English Freestyle Wrestling championship"- Ibragim Kharebov has told IA "Res". According to him the representatives of the national team of England took notice of the talented athlete at the training camp in North Ossetia.