News

The tenth meeting of representatives of the South Ossetian and Georgian civil society was being held on January 11-14, 2012 in the town of Bethlehem (Israel) within the framework of social dialogue "Viewpoint." This has been reported to IA "Res" by one of the participants of the meeting, the Chairman of the South Ossetian Women's Association for Democracy and Human Rights Lira Tskhovrebova. According to her, the meetings are conducted by the Faculty of Analysis and Conflict Resolution at the George Mason University since December 2008. "No any political issues are discussed at these meetings; each participant has his own position.

The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia has registered the initiative group for nominating a candidate for the presidency Georgy Kabisov. As reported to IA "Res" by the CEC of South Ossetia, the initiative group was registered on January 14 and became eligible to begin collecting 1000 signatures in support of its nominated candidate. It should be noted that Georgy Kabisov (earlier holding a post of the Chairman of the State Committee of Information, Communication and Mass Media of South Ossetia) participated in the presidential elections on November, 13, 2011, but didn`t reach the presidential run-off, gaining 7.5% of the vote.

The pupil of the South Ossetian School of boxing, the world-class athlete Robert Pliev has been appointed to the post of the head coach in boxing of the Public and State Athletic and Sports Association "Youth of Russia". "I am grateful to the management of the sports organization
"Youth of Russia" for their high confidence and I'll try to do everything to justify it," - Pliev said to IA "Res". According to the trainer, he is currently in the North-Ossetian village Fiagdon. "Here, along with the leading coaches of the senior high team on boxing of the Russian Federation Viktor Volkov and Sergey Ryzhkov, we are holding the training camp for junior members of the Russian national team - Robert Pliev has underlined. - And January 15 I will fly to Moscow and take up my duties in my new job.

The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia is addressing to the initiative groups on nominating presidential candidates with a request to inform the Central Election Committee about holding their meetings, where a decision on nomination of any candidate is made.

The Central Election Committee accepted a second package of documents from a group of citizens, nominating George Kabisov as the presidential candidate in the upcoming elections on March 25. As reported to IA "Res" by the RSO CEC representative, "the package will be reviewed within legally established time ".

Today in South Ossetia Christmas is being celebrated, as well as throughout the Orthodox world. On the night of January 7 in Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Tskhinval, the night Christmas liturgy was chanted by the opposing Greek Old Calendar Church representative, the Bishop Ambrose Mefonsky.

South Ossetian State Theatre named after Costa Khetagurov has prepared a New Year theater program for residents of the Republic. As reported to IA "Res" by the art director of the Theater Soslan Bibilov, the holiday show for the South Ossetian spectators began January 3, 2012 and will continue until the Old New Year.

Acting President of South Ossetia has addressed to people of the Republic with the New Year congratulation. First of all, V. Brovtsev has reminded that, in view of the prevailing socio-political situation, December 11, 2011, he was charged with the duty of the head of the state, and he intends to carry out his powers strictly within the legal boundaries, in accordance with the Constitution of South Ossetia.

Employees of the Tskhinval office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has wished the residents of the nursing home "Care" in Tskhinval happy New Year and presented them with gifts. The elderly, infirm and lonely people, living in the "Care", which is located uptown, have found themselves there by the will of fate. But they were very happy to meet the unexpected guests and with trembling hands took the gifts from the ICRC delegates, thanking them for their help and attention.

Exchange of citizens of South Ossetia, kept in prisons of Georgia, and the Georgian citizens, kept in prisons of South Ossetia, has taken place today at the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia and Georgia. South Ossetian side has transferred 12 people, as many as the Georgian side. 10 of them are citizens of South Ossetia and Russia, and three of them - have only the Russian citizenship- they are the border facility builders, who accidentally found themselves in the Georgian territory and were detained there.