Archive - 14/10/2013

South Ossetian Orthodox are celebrating today the feast of the Intercession of the Mother of God. In honor of the feast in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Tskhinval took place the solemn liturgy served by priests of the Alan Diocese. As the news agency "Res" was informed by the priest Jacob Khetagurov, the Intercession of the Mother of God is a great feast, instituted by the church in memory of the miraculous appearance of the Mother of God in Vlaherna Church of Constantinople in the 10th century.
"This wonderful event happened in the Byzantine Empire, when Constantinople was surrounded by people of other religions. During the night service, among the believers was of one of the Scythians, the blessed Andrew Fool- for-Christ`s sake. During the prayer, he saw a walking on air the Blessed Virgin Mary, surrounded by angels and saints," - said Father Jacob.
Virgin Mary was praying for the people, and at the end of the prayer she took her headscarf off and spread it over the people.
"Then, the city sank into the thick fog, which signified the whole Christian world protection from visible and invisible enemies," - said Father Jacob.
The priest has underlined that for residents of South Ossetia this holiday is especially precious, because in August 2008 the Virgin Mary covered Tskhinval with her headscarf and saved it from the enemy.
"A few people have even seen the Virgin looking at Tskhinval from the heights, and the city was as if in a fog. Then the Virgin Mary saved us from certain death from enemy bullets, covered us with her headscarf, and we were protected. On this day, we thank the Virgin Mary for the salvation and pray to the Queen of Heaven to protect our country and us from all evil,"- said Father Jacob.
On the feast of the Intercession of the Mother of God the whole family goes to church to implore the intercession of the Mother of God.

Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Stanislav Kochiev called strange the speech of the deputy of the State Duma Roman Khudyakov that Russia's financial aid to the Republic must be controlled by specialists from Russia, for which under the Executive Office of the South Ossetian President should be established a special audit department.
Stanislav Kochiev has noted that at a recent meeting of the leadership of the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Russian Federation was expressed full support to the leadership of South Ossetia.
"There has not been stated any charges of expenditure against the current government. Claims have been to the previous government ", - said the Speaker.
He has added that the leadership of the Parliament of South Ossetia has been informed about the trip of members of the People's Party to Moscow, but they have no any information about the private meetings at the State Duma.
The statement about the need to toughen control over the expenditure of the Russian financial aid made a member of the State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Roman Khudyakov on October 11, after a closed meeting of the State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs "On the current political and economic situation in the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia."
"Under the Executive Office of the President of South Ossetia must be opened audit department, that should include experts from Russia, which would control the flow of Russian money directly to the citizens of South Ossetia," - said the deputy....