Инал Плиев

The 24th round of international discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia is underway in Geneva (Switzerland). As reported to the news agency "Res" over the phone from Geneva by head of the South Ossetian delegation, Presidential Envoy to the RSO for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev, today for participants of the discussions was organized the information session on the issue of unilateral declarations of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia on the non-use of force. It has also been held bilateral meetings of the South Ossetian delegation with the co-chairs and a number of delegations-participants of the Geneva discussions.

The passport of a citizen of South Ossetia for the first time after the recognition of the independence of the Republic (26 August 2008) has given the right to transatlantic travel. From the United States to the Russian Federation came a citizen of South Ossetia Joe Mestas, not having Russian citizenship.

The "brooms revolution" in Georgia, which resulted in a vast majority of parliamentary seats won by earlier oppositional "Georgian Dream" of the current Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili, brought about changes in the activity of the Georgian media. One can observe, which of them has been still exercising loyalty to President Mikhail Saakashvili, and who has already changed his policy and is supporting the new government.
News agency "Georgia Online," has not changed its editorial policy in favor of political trends, trying on an unaccustomed role of opposing to the new Georgian regime. It has been consistently criticizing the policy pursued by the Ivanishvili`s team, as one can see from the headlines. One of them (April 28, 2013) reads: "Ivanishvili assessed the election as "normal" and has again "bitten" the "United National Movement". Here, the Chairman of the Georgian government is compared to a dog ... (which bites).

Prospects for the development of scientific and cultural relations between South Ossetia and Bulgaria were discussed by participants of the extended meeting of the Society of the South Ossetian-Bulgarian Friendship, held in the South Ossetian Research Institute.

Some of the hottest Russian authors have tried to present the recent concert of the Georgian ensemble "Erisioni" as a herald of improvement of the Russian-Georgian relations. However, in Georgia there are completely different views on this event.

The readers seem to remember that in the course of the information-political confrontation between South Ossetia and Georgia, Saakashvili`s government created all sorts of the information twins of the South Ossetia organizations and institutions in order to make a hash of things.

Georgia continues to dot the i's and cross the t's after the criminal governing by Eduard Shevardnadze and Saakashvili, who, along with Zviad Gamsakhurdia, distinguished themselves in the most scaled crimes and human rights violations.
"The family of a journalist Georgy Sanaya demands for a new investigation and will soon go to the prosecutor," - writes the Georgian publication "Georgia Online" February 24 in an article "Family of a journalist Georgy Sanaya is demanding re-investigation of the case."

Influenza is a very dangerous disease. During the World War II and immediately after it thousands of people were mown down by the Spanish flu, widely known for its devastating scale. In our time we have seen the Chinese flu, which started its march around the world from China.
Georgian media announced the flu epidemic in Georgia. According to the Georgian press, this is the swine flu. News Agency "Georgia Online" writes in an article on February 17, 2013 "The number of victims of the so-called swine flu in Georgia has increased to five people":" In January of this year, the number of victims of the so-called swine flu has risen to five in Georgia. This has been told the «IPN» by the Head of the Medical Council of the National Center for Disease Control Paata Imnadze. According to him, since the last November to date up to 143 people picked the virus, 133 of them – the virus type A, 10 - B-type. "

In Georgia, three and a half months later, is continued the understanding of the causes and results of the October parliamentary elections.

Georgian expert community continues to comment on the results of the change of power in the country. The different experts offer different visions of the current events and the ways to improve them. It should be noted that, at the current transitional phase of development of the Georgian state, the media provide their sites for opposing points of view, of which Georgia got out of the habit since the reign of Saakashvili`s "National Movement".