Archive - 2/5/2012

A renowned South Ossetian professional boxer, the European champion under the WBC in the weight class up to 66.6 kg Aslanbek Kozaev is now in the U.S with his coach Vitaly Slanov. As reported to IA "Res" by the coach of the athlete, the invitation was received from the coaching staff of the world famous legendary American boxer Floyd Mayweather to take part in the preparation of Mayweather for a world title fight, according to WBA and WBC with a Puerto Rican boxer Miguel Cotto, - said Slanov. - Miguel Cotto – is the world champion of 2004 - 2006, under the WBA version. He is the current world champion under the WBA version. The fight between Mayweather and Cotto will be held May 5, 2012 in Las Vegas. "

The number of violations of crossing the state border of South Ossetia with Georgia was considerably reduced in the last month. This has been said the journalists by the Attorney General of South Ossetia Merab Chigoev after the next meeting of participants of the Mechanisms on Prevention and Reaction to Incidents (MPRI), held today in the Georgian village of Ergneti.

President of the Republic of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Republic of South Ossetia Elbrus Kargiev at his request. During the meeting they discussed a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation.