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Relatives of the missing persons of South Ossetia had recourse to the Prime Minister and the Attorney General of Georgia to determine the fate of their loved ones.
The letter has also included the findings of the Hammerberg expert commission, charged with the investigating the circumstances of the disappearance of the missing citizens of South Ossetia, as well as the video evidence of their being kept by law enforcement agencies of Georgia.

Servicemen of the anti-aircraft defense of South Ossetia have fixed increasing violations of the airspace of the Republic by the unidentified aircraft from Georgia.

Author and a host of special programs of the State Committee on Television and Radio "IR", General Director of "Media Art Production" Tamerlane Dzudtsov issued an official statement which denied information disseminated by the Chairman of the Assembly of Peoples of Georgia, a member of the Moscow Ossetian community Gocha Dzasokhov, made at the meeting of the Council with the initiative group of Ossetians in Moscow February 2, 2013.

The problem of gas supply of Leningor district of South Ossetia by Georgia is no longer relevant for the Republic.
This has been reported to IA "Res" by Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev. Thus, the ambassador commented on the statement of the Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili that South Ossetia would be supplied with gas from Georgia, as, according to Ivanishvili, the South Ossetian side had been asking for a long time.

Patriotism - it is not an explosion of emotions, but calm and strong commitment that lasts throughout a person's life.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

The nineties ... South Ossetia ... War ... Before my eyes are the television scenes very similar to the footage of the siege of Stalingrad - the same deserted streets, multi-meter bread lines and empty sockets of flats.

Prospects for negotiations at the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia, the next round of which is scheduled for the end of March, were discussed at a meeting of the RF Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin with co-chairs of the talks.

Statement by the Minister of Defence of Georgia Mr. Alasania has expressed the same position declared by the Georgian authorities for several years, that Tbilisi is ready to sign a document on non-use of force, if Russia signs it, too.
This has been reported IA "Res" by Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.
It should be noted that in an interview with BBC the Georgian Defense Minister Irakly Alasania has declared that Tbilisi is ready to sign a declaration of non-use of force, if Russia does the same.

A well-known Ossetian grappler – the World Champion Rustam Chsiev will hold his next fight in February. According to the sportsman, on February 9 he will meet with the American athlete, a black belt owner in Brazilian jiu-jitsu Drew Puzon.

Statement of the Republican Political Party "Unity"

Republican political party "Unity" is concerned about the activity of the Georgian Church, seeking for all possible means "to restore the integrity of Georgia."
Catholicos of Georgia Ilia II, who has recently addressed a request to the U.S. President Bush for help in restoring the integrity of Georgia, is currently working in the Russian political platform.

Flash-poll: In Moscow has been held a meeting of Ilia II with representatives of Georgia, living in Moscow, among whom were also members of the Moscow Ossetian community - Amirkhan Torchinov, Gocha Dzasokhov and Nugzar Juruli. How would you comment on the meeting and the statements of those persons, made on behalf of the Ossetian people, in particular, the "restoration of former friendship between the two peoples, in spite of the misunderstandings, (!) between Ossetians and Georgians."

Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia, the leader of the Communist Party Stanislav Kochiev:
This was an ordinary private meeting. So I don`t attach great importance to it. The interests of the people of South Ossetia are represented by the appropriate authorities, in this case by the Parliament. If some people in a warm friendly atmosphere exchange kissing hands, it does not concern us. Let they have it on their conscience. And their statement also is private and has no relation to the Ossetians, because kissing the hands that are stained with blood of the Ossetians – is a sign of short-sightedness. And reassuring Ilya II in the warmest feelings of the Ossetian people to Georgia – is not true. We know that the hands stained with blood, cannot be kissed by the real mouthpieces of the interests of the people of South Ossetia. Ilia II, probably, has forgotten how he treated us in the recent past, calling for killing Ossetians, how he declared an anathema on everybody who killed only Georgians. May be we have forgotten it, like Ivan, without kith or kin? South Ossetian leadership has repeatedly voiced its relation to these people and to these events.