Russia will continue to provide assistance to South Ossetia in building a modern and economically self-sufficient state, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev said during the meeting with a delegation of South Ossetian observers led by Chairman of the Republic Parliament Alan Alborov.
The events of the 2014 “Crimean Spring” and the results of the Crimean referendum were an act of restoring historical justice, the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry said.
The total number of voters in South Ossetia in the Russian presidential elections as of 14:00 on Saturday was about 12,000 voters, Stepan Tapanan, head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in the Republic of South Ossetia, told IA “Res ”.
It is noted that the data is given taking into account early voting.
Ambassador of South Ossetia to Abkhazia Oleg Botsiev took part in a flower-laying ceremony in the Park of Glory in Sukhum in memory of the warriors perished in the March 1993 offensive operation. This was reported by the press service of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia.
The commemorative event,was attended by President of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania, Prime Minister of the country Alexander Ankvab, Speaker of Parliament Lasha Ashuba, Secretary of the RA Security Council Sergei Shamba, and the war veterans.
The main problem during the search for missing people remains the lack of information on possible burial sites where excavations and exhumations can be carried out, Inal Tasoev, Commissioner for Human Rights in South Ossetia, noted in a comment to IA “Res”.
The day before, at the state border of the Republic, in the village of Ergnet, another meeting took place within the framework of the Tripartite Coordination Mechanism for the search for missing persons.
The delegation of the Central Election Commission of South Ossetia is taking part in the Russian presidential elections as observers.
“Today in Russia voting has started for the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, which will take place for 3 days - from March 15 to 17. The Information Center is operating in the CEC of Russia during all election days," Emilia Gagieva, head of the Central Election Commission of South Ossetia, told IA “Res”.
The high voter turnout in the Russian presidential elections is traditional for South Ossetia, noted Yuri Bulatov, chairman of PEC No. 8360, in a commentary to “Res”.
According to him, from the very morning there has been a high voter turnout at the polling station located in the Tskhinval cultural center (the former building of the Council of Trade Unions).
“People of different ages are coming to take part in the presidential elections in Russia, but people of respected retirement age and civil servants are coming most actively,” Bulatov said.
The Geneva discussions have practically returned to a normal working rhythm, State Advisor to President of the Republic of South Ossetia, the head of the South Ossetian delegation participating in the discussions, Konstantin Kochiev, said on Friday at the first meeting this year in Tskhinval with the EU, UN and OSCE co-chairs of the Geneva discussions .
He has noted that the discussions have no alternative as a negotiation platform providing direct dialogue between Tskhinval, Tbilisi, Sukhum and Moscow.
On Thursday South Ossetia handed over to the Georgian side two citizens who had been in prison for violating the state border, the KGB press service reports.
The nineteenth meeting of the coordination mechanism to clarify the fate and whereabouts of people missing in connection with the armed conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 and after was held on Thursday in the village of Ergnet, the press service of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Republic reports.