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The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia has registered the initiative group for nominating the Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Yuri Dzitstsoity as the candidate for the presidency. As reported to IA "Res" by the CEC of South Ossetia, the initiative group was registered on January 20 and is now eligible to begin collecting 1000 signatures in support of its nominated candidate CEC has already registered the initiative groups nominating Deputy Defense Minister Igor Alborov and the former Chairman of the State Committee of Information, Communication and Mass Media of South Ossetia Georgy Kabisov as the presidential candidates. CEC is also considering a package of documents of the initiative group nominating a Chairman for the RSO Chamber of Commerce Roin Kozaev.
The presidential re-election of South Ossetia will be held on March 25, 2012.

The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia accepted a package of documents from the action group, nominating the Chairman of the RSO Chamber of Commerce Roin Kozaev as the presidential candidate in the upcoming elections on March 25. As reported to IA "Res" by the representative of the CEC of the Republic "these documents will be reviewed within five days, then a decision on registration or refusal of registration the initiative group on nominating Roin Kozaev as the presidential candidate will be made.

The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia will complete accepting of applications from the initiative groups and political parties for nominating president candidates of South Ossetia on February 9, 2012. As reported to IA "Res" by the CEC of South Ossetia, taking into account the five days that are allotted to the Central Election Committee for considering the documents, registration of the action teams will complete on February 13. "February 19 we will complete accepting the subscription lists from the initiative groups.

The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia accepted a package of documents from a group of citizens, nominating Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Yuri Dzitstsoity as the presidential candidate in the upcoming elections on March 25. As reported to IA " Res" by the representative of the CEC of the Republic "these documents will be reviewed within five days, then a decision on registration or refusal of registration the initiative group on nominating Yuri Dzitstsoity as the presidential candidate will be made. In case of registration the initiative group will receive a certificate of registration, which will enable it to collect signatures in support of their candidate," Earlier, the CEC of South Ossetia has already registered two initiative groups nominating Deputy Defense Minister Igor Alborov and ex-Chairman of the State Committee of Information, Communication and Mass Media of South Ossetia Kabisov Georgy as the presidential candidates.

Ex-presidential candidate of South Ossetia Alla Dzhioeva withdrew her signature under the compromise agreement signed December 9, 2011 on resolving the political crisis in the Republic after the November presidential election. As reported to IA "Res" by Alla Dzhioeva, the letter with notification of withdrawal from the agreement and the requirement to the Acting President Vadim Brovtsev to transfer her power was sent to the presidential administration on January 17.

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 ".