Archive - 18/2/2012

Today, a well-known professional boxer from South Ossetia Aslanbek Kozaev is going to hold his next rating fight in the U.S. city of Hammond (Indiana). As reported to IA "Res" by the coach of the athlete Vitaly Slanov, "Kozaev will perform in the weight category to 66 kg. He will meet with the U.S. champion according to the professional version of the World Boxing Council (WBC) Prince Burer. The rival of our athlete is 24 years old.

Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Yuri Dzitstsoity has been refused the registration as a candidate for President of the Republic. This has been reported to IA "Res" by the CEC secretary Irina Gassieva. She noted that this decision was made on the basis of detection of numerous violations in the subscription lists, submitted to the CEC by the action group nominating Yuri Dzitstsoity as the candidate for president of South Ossetia. "Subscription lists were filled in incorrectly, and did not meet the requirements of the election law," - said Gassieva.

Association of Women of South Ossetia for Democracy and Human Rights, together with all the citizens of RSO followed with great concern events related to the announcement of the inauguration date by the ex-candidate to the President Dzhioeva Alla, and incident which happened in Tskhinval on February 9, when Alla Alekseevna Dzhioeva was transported to Rebublican Hospital in grave condition.

Delegation of co-chairs of the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia has arrived today in South Ossetia with a working visit. The delegation includes Philippe Lefort (EU), Antti Turunen (UN) and Padrig Murphy (OSCE). In Tskhinval, the co-chairs were received by Presidential Envoy on post-conflict settlement Boris Chochiev. The meeting was also attended by Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Murat Dzhioev and Human Rights Ombudsman David Sanakoev.

The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia has accepted today subscription lists from the action groups nominating ex- Chairman of the Committee of Transportation Maurice Sanakoev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to the RF Dmitry Medoev and chief bailiff of the Ministry of Justice Sergei Bitiev as the presidential candidates.

The recognition of South Ossetia by the growing number of states – is an irreversible process, and it eventually will promote relaxation of international tension in the South Caucasus as a whole. Thus, Deputy Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Alan Pliev commented on the rupture of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Tuvalu and Georgia in an interview with IA "Res".

A round table discussion on a topic "The political situation in South Ossetia on the eve of presidential elections," organized by the Institute of the CIS countries, will be held in Moscow February 20. As IA "Res" has been informed at the press service of the Parliament of South Ossetia, "the discussion will be attended by politicians, political scientists from South and North Ossetia, Russian experts on the Caucasus".