Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

The Supreme Court of South Ossetia has handed over the notification message about the date of the session, where the appeal of supporters of the ex-presidential candidate of the RSO Alla Dzhioeva against the judgment of the Supreme Court on recognition of presidential elections of South Ossetia on November, 27 invalid, will be considered. It has been reported to IA "RES" by the Chief Justice Atsamaz Bichenov. As he has said, consideration of the appeal will take place tomorrow at 9.00; then he Supreme Court will announce its judgment. It should be reminded that the situation in South Ossetia has become aggravated after cancellation by the Supreme Court of the results of presidential elections, which, according to the latest published information of the Central Electoral Committee, have been won by the oppositional candidate Dzhioeva.

Representatives of staff of the ex-presidential candidate of South Ossetia Alla Dzhioeva have fixed the day of her inauguration on December, 10 despite the judgement of the Supreme Court to cancel the ballot. "People of South Ossetia voted for Alla Dzhioeva. We cannot be deprived of our victory and we have decided to fix the inauguration day for December 10 at 14:00 "- the representative of the staff has announced, addressing to the protesters in the central square of the capital. At the same time, he did not specify the date of inauguration.

The next round of consultations between supporters of ex-presidential candidate of South Ossetia Alla Dzhioeva and representative of the Russian presidential administration Sergei Vinokurov has been completed in Tskhinval. As reported to IA "Res" by the opposition participant of the negotiations Alan Pliev, the dialogue did not yield any tangible results; the adherents of Dzhioeva are going to wait the judgement of the Supreme Court and continue to protest at the Theater Square "to the bitter end." "Consultations will be continued tomorrow," – Pliev has noted. In turn, the Kremlin administration spokesman Sergei Vinokurov has declined to assess the effect of the dialogue, telling the journalists that he is only the moderator "between the so-called opposition and the South Ossetian authorities." Earlier it has been reported. that due to illness, the opposition leader Alla Dzhioeva did not participate in negotiations with Vinokurov. Instead of her, Anatoly Barankevich, Alan Pliev, Dzhemal Dzhigkaev and Sergey Zasseev are speaking for the opposition.

In the centre of Tskhinval the protest action of supporters of the ex-presidential candidate of South Ossetia Alla Dzhioeva is still in progress. About 150 oppositionists are still holding a meeting in the central square. They made fires, put tents and declared that they would stand until the authorities have fulfilled their requirements.

Tomorrow supporters of the ex-presidential candidate of South Ossetia Alla Dzhioeva will continue negotiations with the authorities of the RSO through intermediary of Russia. It has been declared by one of Alla Dzhioeva supporters - Alan Pliev- at the meeting in Tskhinval. He has noticed that negotiations in the republican government were going on during the day.

Voting in South Ossetia has been held as much democratically as possible. It was declared by a member of the international organization on supervision over elections CIS EMO Stavros Vitalis at the briefing in the Central Electoral Committee Information Centre. As he said, during the monitoring of presidential election in South Ossetia group CIS EMO has found out some new details in the electoral process. «I am a member of democratic movement in Greece which represents direct democracy. But here, in South Ossetia, our group visited several polling stations and has been amazed to see, how much democratically the voting process is being held».

The agreement on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs affairs between Russia and South Ossetia has been ratified at the meeting of the parliamentary session of South Ossetia in Tskhinval. The meeting was headed by the Acting Parliament Speaker of the RSO Zurab Kokoev. Draft agreement for consideration of the deputies was brought up by the Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia, Yuri Dzitstsoity. "This cooperation agreement has already been ratified by Russia,-Dzitstsoity has said. -It implies strengthening of cooperation in customs affairs between South Ossetia and Russia." The Vice-Speaker said that the agreement had been signed between the two states in Moscow on December 9, 2010. Then, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of South Ossetia on construction, industry, transport and communications, Gennady Kokoev introduced a bill on the state strategic planning in the Republic of South Ossetia. "This law establishes the basic principles, contents and procedure of the state strategic planning of socio-economic development of South Ossetia, and also defines the powers of participants of the state strategic planning process,"-Kokoev has declared.

Today on the eve of the second round of presidential elections of the RSO the "day of silence" has been announced in South Ossetia. As reported to IA "Res" by the Chairman of the Central Election Committee of South Ossetia, Bella Plieva, the republic is ready for the second round of presidential elections. "November, 26, the day before the election, according to the law is announced as the "Day of Silence" so the voters could easily make their choice. Today, all campaigning activities related to the upcoming elections, are prohibited in the territory of the Republic.

Today 500 head of cattle have been delivered to South Ossetia from the Republic of Kalmykia. As reported to IA "Res" by the Acting Minister for Economic Development of South Ossetia Batradz Parastaev, selection of animals was carried out by the South Ossetian farmers jointly with the agricultural department of the Ministry of Economic Development of South Ossetia.

From November 24 according to the KGB of South Ossetia in accordance with the order of the Chairman of the Committee of the State Security of the Republic the personnel committee and the KGB border guard service are transferred to reinforced schedule of service. "As part of these measures, since the same time the simplified crossing of the state border with the Republic of Georgia in the settlements Mosabruni, Artsev, Sinagur and Karzman will also be suspended. Crossing the mentioned points will be resumed at 20:00 pm on November, 28 2011", - has been informed by the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia.