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May 23, 2016 the delegation of Co-Chairs of the Geneva international discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia will arrive in the Republic of South Ossetia.

As reported by the Office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia, as part of the visit will be held a meeting with members of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva talks, during which will be discussed preparations for the next round of discussions scheduled for June, 2016.

May 11 in Moscow took place the meeting of the Chairman of the State Customs Committee of South Ossetia Murat Tskhovrebov with the head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia Andrei Belyaninov. During the meeting it was discussed the mechanism of implementation of the Treaty of Alliance and Integration between South Ossetia and Russia regarding the integration of the customs authorities. The corresponding supplementary agreement was signed by the parties April 25, 2016.
According to Murat Tskhovrebov, the meeting was held in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. The parties have agreed to proceed with the implementation of the additional agreementand to form a joint working group that will coordinate the practical implementation of measures to implement the agreement and to solve the arising problems. On the proposal of the Russian partners the meetings of the working group will also be conducted in the videoconference format. The parties also discussed the issues of information exchange between the customs authorities of South Ossetia and Russia, as well as cooperation in the field of logistics.
In an interview with the journalists of IA "Res" Murat Tskhovrebov has noted that thanks to the policy of President Leonid Tibilov the interaction of South Ossetia and Russia in the field of customs has reached a new level: "In the format of a joint working group, we will be able to quickly solve all the issues that may arise in the implementation of the signed agreement. With the development of bilateral co-operation in South Ossetia will be modernized the material-technical resources of the South Ossetian customs authorities, and will be improved the skill level of our employees. I am pleased to say that we have met full understanding and support of Andrei Belianinov. "
According to the head of the South Ossetian customs authorities, this meeting has become an important step in the implementation of the supplementary agreement to the Treaty of Alliance and Integration, signed on March 18, 2015 by presidents Leonid Tibilov and Vladimir Putin: "In the field of customs, we, with our Russian colleagues have been consistently implementing the course, fixed in the signed agreement. It aims at the closest interaction and cooperation between South Ossetia and Russia. "

The delegation of South Ossetia took part in the ceremonies dedicated to the second anniversary of proclamation of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The delegation included the Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov, the State Adviser to the President of South Ossetia Rodion Siukaev, Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office Vladimir Tskhovrebov and a member of the political council of the party "United Ossetia" Igor Kozaev.
According to the State Adviser to the President of South Ossetia Rodion Siukaev, the celebrations in the country began on May 11, with a large-scale marsh of workers on the main street of Donetsk.
At a solemn meeting in the Donetsk National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after A. Solovyanenko - the culmination of the festive events, were the head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko and the heads of delegations.
The Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov read out the welcome address of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov to the leadership and people of the Donetsk People's Republic:
"You are not alone in your struggle for freedom and independence. All the people of goodwill share and understand the meaning and purpose of your struggle. Our people have gone through the same hard trials on the thorny path to the recognition of our statehood. "
Zakharchenko, in turn, expressed his gratitude to the people and leadership of South Ossetia for their support.
He has stressed that the Republic of South Ossetia is the first country that has recognized the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic that is a true step of friendship and support to the brotherly people of Donetsk.
Alexander Zakharchenko issued a decree to award the "Order of Friendship" of the Donetsk People's Republic to the President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov.
Zakharchenko has also presented the appropriate awards to all members of the South Ossetian delegation.
The event has ended with a festive concert, which was also attended by the South Ossetian artists- the children's ensemble "Scythians" by the Lyceum of Arts.
During the visit to the DPR representatives of the Presidential Executive Office of South Ossetia Rodion Siukaev and Vladimir Tskhovrebov held several meetings with Minister of Economy of the Donetsk People's Republic Victoria Romaniuk and the Foreign Minister Natalia Nikonorova.
According to Rodion Siukaev, in the course of the meeting with Viktor Romaniuk were discussed the issues of economic cooperation between the two republics.
"With the Foreign Minister we have discussed further cooperation with the Donetsk People's Republic to prepare an agreement on friendship and cooperation, which will bring the interaction of Donetsk and South Ossetia to a qualitatively new level", - added Siukaev.
The festive events were also attended by delegation, of Russia, the Republic of Abkhazia, the Luhansk People's Republic.

Ossetian professional boxer Murat Gasseev (Iron) became the mandatory challenger for the title of the IBF World Champion, by knocking out the American Jordan Schimmel.
Gassiev knocked out the opponent in the first round of the alleged 12-round bout. The boxing match was held in the Carlton, the US state of Minnesota.
The coach of the Ossetian athlete Vitaly Slanov has noted in an interview with the news agency "Res" that the team did not count on a quick victory.
Murat Gassiev will soon fight for the IBF title of the world champion. The opponent will be determined after the bout between Victor Emilio Ramirez and Denis Lebedev, which will take place on May 21.
A young talented boxer Murat Gassiev, not being defeated in the ring, has won the European IBF title, the IBF Intercontinental Champion, the WBC world champion. After the victory in this bout, he updated his record to 23 wins.
Schimmel has held 21 battles and 20 of them he has won.
The bout was broadcast worldwide on TV channel Fox sports 1.

May 16th Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev received an independent international expert on criminal investigations Dusan Ignyatovich engaged by invitation of the OSCE in investigating cases of persons to be listed as missing as a result of the Georgian aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia in 2008.
According to the press service of the Office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Republic of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement, "Murat Dzhioev has noted the great work carried out by Mr Dusan Ignyatovich to clarify the fate of the missing persons and expressed hope that this work will be continued. It was noted that the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report submitted by Mr. Ignyatovich on the results of his investigation, once again convincingly support the conclusion of the independent experts of the Council of Europe, engaged in the 2009-2010 investigation cases of missing persons, on the responsibility of the Georgian police authorities for the disappearance of the residents of South Ossetia ".
The meeting, during which was expressed the willingness to continue humanitarian and humane working to clarify the fate of missing persons, was also attended by the Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights of South Ossetia Inal Tasoev.
On the same day, Mr. Dusan Ignyatovich met with relatives of the missing, representatives of the General Prosecutor's Office of South Ossetia, and also had a conversation with the ICRC office in the Republic of South Ossetia.

The exhibition of the Ossetian artists "Arv-Art" will be opened in Brussels in the framework of the program "The Days of Ossetian culture in Europe", informed the news agency "Res" the head of the international non-profit association «Renaissance Sandidzan» Radion Pukhaev.

According to him, the international exhibition of the Ossetian artists "Arv-Art" will be opened on May 14.

"At the exhibition will be presented the works by Igor Toguzaev, Teimuraz Pliev, Arkady Kumaritov, Fatima Tsallagova, Valery Ataev, Victor Tsallagov, Karina Kachmazova" – said Pukhaev.

He has added that the exhibition of the Ossetian artists will also be presented in Luxembourg, French Aviote and Berlin.

"In addition, in the near future we plan to hold a round table with participation of the clerisy from Ossetia and Europe", - said Pukhaev.

May 4 Acting Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia Andrei Tskhovrebov received the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in Italy Mr Mauro Murgia.

As reported to IA "Res" by the press service of the Foreign Ministry of South Ossetia, during the meeting they have discussed issues concerning the activities of the office of the Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, the opening of which took place on April 2, 2016 in Rome.

It was stressed the importance of this event to further promote the interests of South Ossetia in Italy. During the meeting were also considered the prospects for the implementation of various projects that can be implemented in the Republic of South Ossetia in the field of medicine, economy, education and culture. "

Andrew Tskhovrebov thanked Mr. Murgia "for active civil position and his work as a representative" and expressed his gratitude to everyone who assisted him.

April 26, 2016 Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev received the Head of Mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Republic of South Ossetia Nalyan Antman.

According to the press service of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement, "during the meeting were discussed issues of search and clarify the fate of persons to be listed as missing as a result of the 1991 - 1992 and 2008 Georgian aggression. Participants of the meeting have noted the effectiveness of the tripartite coordination of Mechanism under the auspices of the ICRC, as part of the work of which has been recently clarified the fate of one of the defenders of South Ossetia, to be listed as missing since August 2008, and expressed the need to further enhancing of its activity. "

.In the course of the meeting were also discussed humanitarian issues, including the humanitarian situation in the areas adjacent to the state border between the Republic of South Ossetia and Georgia.

"On the part of South Ossetia, the meeting was also attended by the State Advisor to the President David Sanakoev and the Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights Inal Tasoev representing South Ossetia in the tripartite coordination mechanism for the search for missing persons".

During the forthcoming referendum on amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of South Ossetia to be held in July 2016, it will be proposed Article 10 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Ossetia, according to which: "The Republic of South Ossetia has the right to enter into an alliance with other states and to transfer to the bodies of the Union part of its powers ", supplemented by the following paragraph:

"Based on the results of the popular vote (referendum) on January 19,1992, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia with the consent of the Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia has the right to appeal to the leadership of the Russian Federation with the offer on acceptance of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation as a new region of the Russian Federation and to conclude with the Russian Federation the relevant Treaty "

This initiative, as it is known, was proposed by the President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov. We asked the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev to comment on this situation:

The initiative of the South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov to hold a referendum on introducing amendments to the current Constitution of the Republic of South Ossetia, which legally allows to apply to the Russian Federation on the acceptance of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation, is completely clear and justified.

The desire to reunite with Russia, the Russian people is a long-standing dream and strategy of the political orientation of the people of South Ossetia, at least since 1917, when by the revolution will and subsequent events, South Ossetia found itself out of the Russian space . All these years preceding the present initiative, have shown that only with Russia can be guaranteed a quiet present and future of our people.

President Leonid Tibilov has repeatedly stressed his and the South Ossetian leadership's commitment to becoming a part of Russia. The idea of ​​a referendum, he announced in February, in his Message to the Parliament and the people of South Ossetia.

I believe that it is in this formulation, the issue of a referendum is legally and politically correct and has the prospect of implementation.

Such an important step, as the acceptance of one state to another one should be legally justified and supported by political and international environment.

The referendum to be held on the scheme proposed by the President enables the legal justification, it will be enshrined in the Constitution (now Article 10 of the Constitution does not provide for the entry of South Ossetia into another state), and also gives powers to the President and the Parliament in due time on behalf of the people to appeal to the Russian leadership . This referendum and the Constitution will give the right and duty to the President and the Parliament to speak on behalf of all the people, because they are elected by the people and have appropriate authority (and this will not be a personal whim of one person, as it is now want to present a few).

Speaking about accepting South Ossetia to the Russian Federation, we should not ignore the international environment, the momentary desire should not put the RSO or Russia in an awkward position with the international legal point of view. And in order to be at the right time in the right place you have to be prepared in advance. Such preparedness can be provided by the referendum .

In Makhachkala has completed the work the international youth student forum "For the mutual understanding in the Caucasus", which was attended by representatives of socially active young people, journalists and bloggers from all over the North Caucasus, as well as representatives of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Krasnodar region, Sevastopol, Republic of Adygea, Kalmykia and Crimea.

As reported to the news agency "Res" by the head of the South Ossetian delegation, Assistant Vice-Rector of South Ossetian State University for educational and vocational guidance work Bela Mamieva, the forum "For the mutual understanding in the Caucasus" was very informative and interesting.

"Our delegation has included a lecturer of the Department of Journalism of the South Ossetian State University Zarina Kachmazova, a Chairman of the student council Albert Gabatty and a student of our university Azamat Tedeeev ", - she said.

Mamieva has noted that the program of the forum has included the work in the areas such as patriotism in Russia, social activity, public diplomacy, information space.

"The forum participants could choose interesting fields, we have chosen public diplomacy and information space - clarified Mamieva.- Each section was attached to a specific expert. Our expert was a Chairman of the Board of the Fund for Support and Development of Jewish Culture Mikhail Chernov - an expert of the site "information space". Chernov is a well-known journalist, who worked from 2002 to 2008 on the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, he has warmly welcomed us.

The head of the delegation has noted that the South Ossetian students were very active during the round tables.

"They were also included in the expert group and the working section of the" people's diplomacy ", - said Mamieva.- Following the forum, each Republic has chosen one direction in which it intends to work. We have chosen the work with bloggers and the placement of the Caucasus content on the Russian portals. We started working on it and we hope that we will succeed. "

Mamieva has emphasized that the visit of the South Ossetian delegation .took place thanks to the Chairman of the Committee on Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism of South Ossetia Sergey Zasseev and Rector of the South Ossetian State University Vadim Tedeeev.

She has also added that Sergey Zasseev and Vadim Tedeev were handed over letters of thanks from the organizers of the forum "For understanding in the Caucasus".