President Eduard Kokoity held a press-conference for journalists of western media who arrived in South Ossetia on 12 February to see the political and social situation on the ground as well as with the process of removal of consequences of Georgian aggression.
Rehabilitation works at sites in Tskhinval destroyed during the Georgian aggression. The kindergarten #13 in Ostaev street was seriously damaged. On 11 October 2008, reconstruction works had started at this site. As reported by chief of construction crew Magomed Kazim, the customer of the project is the State committee on reconstruction and the contractor is the Department for Reconstruction to the Government of North Ossetia – Alania.
Several journalists representing western media are visiting South Ossetia to see the process of reconstruction. The have visited "Moscow microdistirct" which is being built up, as well as other construction sites in Tskhinval. During their visit, the journalists had a possibility to talk to local population to better understand the situation in post-war South Ossetia. James Hill, a photographer from "New York Times", came to South Ossetia in 90s and right after the August 2008 hostilities.
"It is not by chance that the Georgian side has been recently organizing various provocations", stated the RSO President"s Plenipotentiary for Post-conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev. "We have learned Georgia"s provocative methods through these years and these provocations always happen right before some important meetings", said Chochiev. "We believe that Geneva talks are extremely important. We will be adopting the finalized mechanism for incident prevention. And it is clear, that this mechanism should have been agreed before to be able to rapidly react to these provocations. Nonetheless, at the last meeting, the Georgian side had forwarded conditions that appeared unacceptable for us and that is why this prevention mechanism had not been agreed", he noted.