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A round table discussion on the topic "Eurasian Union - a new stage of integration" has recently been held in the capital of South Ossetia.
The organizer of the event - the South Ossetian branch of the Development Fund "Institute of Eurasian Studies", - invited to the discussion the South Ossetian and Russian experts, the public and political figures of the Republic.
As noted during the roundtable by the Chairman of the Ossetian branch of the Development Fund of the "Institute of Eurasian Studies", Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Zurab Kokoev, Eurasian Union, by analogy with the European Union, is to become a common economic space without any migration and border barriers.

The recent parliamentary election in Georgia, which has been dubbed the "Brooms Revolution," has developed a dual power in the neighboring country. The President remained the same, only his powers have been diminished in favor of the Prime Minister: Saakashvili himself proposed this law in the hope that his party would win the election and offer him the position of prime minister with wider powers than the president.

Foreign Policy Aspects

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia

Twenty-three years ago, November 23, 1989 on the outskirts of Tskhinval was stopped a march of tens of thousands of the Georgian extremists, organized by leaders of the nationalist movements, through complicity of the authorities of Georgia. The march to Tskhinval was aimed at intimidating the Ossetians that would have to be followed by their expulsion from the territory of South Ossetia. That plan of the Georgian nationalists was thwarted, however, those November days were a prologue to the long struggle of the people of South Ossetia for the right to life, liberty, and human dignity.

November 20 co-chairs of the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia paid a working visit to the Republic of South Ossetia. In Tskhinval the delegation was received by representatives of leadership of the Republic of South Ossetia, led by the RSO Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.

South Ossetian delegation went to Moscow to take part in the third national forum of heads of the public health system facilities.

Co-Chairs of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia have visited today Leningor district of South Ossetia. As the RSO Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev told IA "Res", Philippe Lefort (EU), Antti Turunen (UN) and Podrig Murphy (OSCE) had visited social facilities in the district, talked to local people.

A Centre of public access to Legal Information of the Russian Federation has opened at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in the capital of South Ossetia.

A book "The Code of Tragedy: 08/08/08" (White Paper on the crimes committed by Georgia against Russian peacekeepers and civilians in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in August 2008) has been issued based on the materials of the criminal case being investigated by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov has received a group of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, representing the LDPR faction, led by Ian Zelinsky, arrived in the Republic to attend the VII Congress of the People's Party of South Ossetia.