The Day before the presidential election in South Ossetia is declared the "day of silence." As reported to IA "Res" by the press service of the Central Election Committee, any campaigning, election advertising in the media and on television is prohibited on March 24.
The border with Georgia will be sealed at the time of the elections in South Ossetia.
As reported to IA "Res" by the law enforcement bodies, since Friday, March 23, all of the security forces in South Ossetia were transferred to the enhanced schedule of service until further notice.
More than 40 observers from the Russian Federation will monitor the elections in South Ossetia. As reported to IA "Res" by a representative of the Central Election Committee Christina Avlokhova, "more than 40 observers will arrive in the Republic on the invitation of the Central Election Committee, Parliament, the Presidential Administration of South Ossetia."
The Acting Speaker of the RSO Parliament Zurab Kokoev received a delegation of the Federation Council of Russia. The delegation has included Viktor Ozerov - Chairman of the RF Committee on Defense and Security Federation Council, Elias Bechelov - Member of the Federation Council of Russia, Konstantin Kopaev - Advisor to the Office of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Rashid Fayzukhanov - Advisor to the Office of International Relations of the Federation Council.
The delegation of the Ministry of Culture of South Ossetia will take part in the third International Festival "Pyatigorsk is lighting the stars," which will be held in Pyatigorsk March 24-25. As IA "Res" has been reported by the press service of the Ministry of Culture of South Ossetia, "the delegation will include representatives of the Ministry of Culture of South Ossetia and the South Ossetian singer, the international competitions laureate, Nina Gatikoeva". They noted that the South Ossetian side had received the invitation to the festival from the Stavropol region creative public organization "Word Art Music».
March 21 the Acting President of South Ossetia Vadim Brovtsev and the Russian Regional Development Minister Viktor Basargin signed in Moscow a protocol of the meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on economic and social cooperation between the Republic of South Ossetia and Russia, which was held in early March. As reported to IA "Res" by the press service of the President and the government of South Ossetia, the issues of reconstruction and equipping the resuscitation unit of the Republican somatic hospital in Tskhinval have been discussed during the signing. "More than 60 million rubles were allocated for this purpose.
The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia appealed to the citizens of the Republic to show active civic stand and to take part in the re-election of the president on Sunday, March 25. Such appeal was addressed to the population of the Republic by the Chairman of the CEC of South Ossetia Bella Plieva at a briefing in Tskhinval. The CEC Chairman asked the observers and the representatives of the candidates having the right of signature on the ballots to comply with the current standards of the electoral legislation at the polls and do not go beyond their duties."The signature authorization representatives should only deal with putting their signatures on the reverse side of the ballot. Observers in the November, 2011 election, which were checking practically each voter`s passport, had no such authority. They could only observe what was happening at the poll.
Webcams will be installed in the Information Centre of the Central Electoral Committee of South Ossetia. This has been reported to IA "Res" by the CEC Chairman Bella Plieva.
" Webcams will be installed at the entrance and in the premises of the CEC Information Center in order to ensure the maximum transparency of its work", - said Plieva.
Embassy of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation has announced that due to the scheduled for March 25, 2012 re-run elections of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia and in accordance with the decision of the Central Election Committee, a polling station number 85 for the voting citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia, living or temporarily staying in Moscow will be opened in the Embassy.
A round table has been held in Tskhinval, where it was discussed the idea of creating a new political party named "For civic dignity." The organizer of the round table was "Association of the South Ossetian Women for Democracy and Human Rights." According to the president of the "Association of the South Ossetian Women for Democracy and Human Rights" Lira Tskhovrebova, one of the objectives of the new party will be promoting development of the civil society. "Thanks to the activities of our association, we were able to give analytical material to position of women in society, to the state of civil society, and now thanks to creation of a new party, we will be able to improve the situation in these areas," - said Tskhovrebova.
