South Ossetia wants to be together with the Russian Federation under pressure from the West, President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said in the interview with RIA Novosti.
Earlier, Bibilov said that a referendum on joining the Russian Federation could be held in the Republic, consultations are now underway with Russia on this topic.
South Ossetia and the Donetsk People's Republic have not yet discussed the candidacies of ambassadors to the republics, President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said in the interview with RIA Novosti.
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decrees recognizing the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. South Ossetia recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR back in 2014.
The State Duma plans to consider the bill on ratification of the agreement on dual citizenship between South Ossetia and Russia on April 19.
"We are submitting the draft law for April 19," its Chairman, Leonid Kalashnikov, said on Tuesday at the meeting of the profile committee on CIS affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots.
Georgia can arrange provocations after South Ossetia's statements about holding a referendum on joining the Russian Federation, Tskhinval is ready to respond adequately, South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov said in the interview with RIA Novosti.
"No doubt there are fears," he said in response to a related question.
The International Information Center of the Central Election Commission of South Ossetia will begin its work on Sunday, April 10, Igor Chochiev, a member of the Central Election Commission of the Republic, told journalists.
"The press center will be opened on the day of the elections of the President of the Republic, where all information about the voting process both at the polling stations on the territory of the Republic and beyond its borders will be flowing," Chochiev said.
The initiative group has been created in South Ossetia to hold a referendum on joining Russia, which will apply to the Central Election Commission of the Republic with a corresponding statement, Speaker of the RSO Parliament Alan Tadtaev told reporters.
"The initiative group will submit an application to the CEC, including candidates for commissioners who, in accordance with the Constitution, will document the issue so that the date for the referendum on our Republic's entry into Russia is set.
The Abkhaz delegation headed by the Health Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia Eduard Butba arrived in South Ossetia on the invitation of his South Ossetian colleague Soslan Naniev, the press service of the Health Ministry of the Republic of South Ossetia reported.
"The agreement has been reached on mutual access of citizens to the existing clinical and health organizations of both republics," the press service said.
They noted that in the near future an algorithm for access to a particular medical institution in the Republic of Abkhazia will be formed.
In South Ossetia, for the first time, was held the international interdisciplinary scientific conference on hand surgery, within the framework of which free reception of patients and operations were held for residents of our Republic, Minister of Health of the Republic Soslan Naniev told the “Res” news agency.
The format within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) will work as usual, despite the current situation in the world, said the head of the South Ossetian delegation, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Egor Kochiev.
According to the head of the South Ossetian delegation, the date of the next round of April 12 was approved at the last IPRM meeting, and there is no information about the changes yet.
In a situation of global world instability, South Ossetia is looking for reliable protection and hopes to find it as part of Russia, this confirms the status of the Russian Federation as a peacemaker, said Viktor Bondarev, the head of the defense committee of the Federation Council.
Earlier, President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov stated that the Republic would soon take legal steps to become part of Russia. He has noted that the opportunity to realize this "strategic goal" was back in 2014, when Crimea was reunited with the Russian Federation following the referendum.
