Archive - 16/6/2010

The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity signed the Decree on Dismissal and Transfer of the Personnel from among the Armed Forces. According to this Decree of the president, the personnel, whose terms of active service expire in June-July 2010, will be dismissed. it is worth reminding that earlier, at the Parliament sessions, the acting Defense Minister Ibragim Gasseev stated that the plan for Armed Forces reform elaborated by the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia included transition to a new set-up in the defense structures and three-stage downsizing in the armed forces personnel, with 10 % decrease per stage.

A citizen of South Ossetia, Anatoly Kisiev, was wounded in the borderline village of Diseu (Tskhinvali district). As reported by duty officer of the RSO MoI, Kisiev and his son were shot at by Georgian policemen at the checkpoint deployed in the village of Koshki (Georgia). " A group of men in uniforms and balaclavas, armed with machine guns shot at Kisiev and his son in the outskirts of Diseu village. Kisiev received three wounds and was urgently evacuated to the Republican Hospital in Tskhinval", reported the Interior Ministry.