The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia has completed registration of candidates for the Presidency. As reported by the Central Election Committee to IA "RES", 17 citizens of the RSO will contest the presidency. «In total 30 initiative groups have addressed to the Central Election Committee. Thirteen of them have been refused registration, and 17 nominees will participate in the elections», - has been noted at the Central Election Committee. Besides, in day of voting 86 polling stations will be opened. According to the Central Election Committee «19 of them – will function in Tskhinval, two - in the village Upper Ruck (Dzausky district, RSO) -where the citizens, living in North Ossetia, will be able to vote, one polling station will function in the RSO embassy territory in Moscow , one - in Abkhazia. The rest of the polling stations will be located in the other districts of the Republic. It should be reminded, that on November, 13 of the current year the presidential elections will be conducted in South Ossetia. Along with the elections a referendum on the Russian language status will also be held in the Republic. Here is the list of the presidential nominees of the Republic of South Ossetia:
Alan Kochiev – a trainer of the weightlifting juvenile sports school;
Vladimir Kelekhsaev - the deputy of the Parliament of the RSO of the III-d and the IV-th convocations;
Vadim Tskhovrebov (director of the South Ossetian enterprise of bakery products);
Dmitry Tasoev - the leader of the Social-Democratic party liquidated in March, 2011 at the suit of the Ministry of Justice of the RSO;
Ajvar Bestaev -the branch manager of the Republican hospital;
Alla Dzhioeva - ex-Minister of Education of the RSO;
Anatoly Bibilov - the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the RSO;
Alan Kotaev - the First Deputy of Mayor of Tskhinval;
Georgy Kabisov- the Chairman of the State Committee for Information and Mass Communications; Merab Chigoev - the deputy of the Parliament of the RSO;
Sergey Bitiev - a chief bailiff of the Ministry of Justice of the RSO;
Dzhemal Dzhigkaev - the head of the computer diagnostics branch of the Republican hospital; Soslan Tedety – a commanding officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RSO;
Alan Pliev - the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the RSO;
Eduard Gabaraev - the artillery commander of the Ministry of Defence of the RSO;
Igor Alborov - the Deputy Minister of Defence of the RSO;
Inal Bazzaev - the deputy of the Parliament of the RSO
