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The investigation group of the Peacemaking mission named after general Lebed has proceed to searching for people missing in the course of the georgian-ossetian conflict in 1989-2008y.y. As a Chairman of the Council of the Peacemaking mission Alexander Mukomolov informed IA «Res», the actions of the investigators had been coordinated with the leadership of South Ossetia and the law-enforcement structures of the Republic. "At the point we are collecting samples of blood group of the relatives of the missing people to create a genetic and information data base of the Republic. The works on identification of the remains and the samples of blood will be conducted in the Russian centre of the judicial-medical expertise", - has reported Mukomolov. According to his words, the financing of the process of searching for the missing people has been allotted from the grant of the President of Russia, and is being realized by the Public Chamber of the RF.

From the 17 May 2011 the process of issuing passports will start in South Ossetia. It has been declared by the President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity in the course of the meeting with the representatives of the law-enforcement bodies of the RSO. Having heard the information of the relevant structures about their readiness to start issuing passports to the population of the Republic, the Head of the state has entrusted to the government, the preparation of all the normative- legal acts and begin issuing passports of the citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia with the graduates .of schools since 17 May 2011. As reported by the Head of the state, the passports will be issuing in strict accordance to the Law and the Constitution of the RSO. "And they will be granted only on the territory of South Ossetia", - has declared the president, having noted that the passports earlier issued will be exempted. "The category of our people, who cannot give the documents of confirmation of the citizenship (specified in the list of necessary documents for receiving the passport of a citizen of the RSO) and having the passport of the citizen of the RSO, will undergo separate procedure", - has emphasized Eduard Kokoity.

The State song-and- dance group of the Republic of South Ossetia "Simd" and the State folk dance group "The Caucasus" of the Republics of Abkhazia will give the joint festive concerts, dedicated to the acknowledgment of the independence of the RSO and the RA by Russia in the cities of the North-Caucasian federal district (NCFD) and the South federal district (SFD). It has been reported IA "Res" by the Deputy Minister of culture of the RSO Dzhulietta Dzheranova. "On 9 of May the Abkhazian folk- dance group 'The 'Caucasus'' will conduct the solo concerts in Tskhinval. On 13 of May the ensembles ''Simd'' and ''The Caucasus'' will organize the joint concerts in the capital of South Ossetia and then leave with tour for the cities of NCFD and SFD ", - she has said. As the Deputy Minister has informed, the South-Ossetian and the Abkhazian ensembles will give the joint concerts in Vladikavkaz, Nalchik, Cherkessk, Maykop, Krasnodar, Rostov from 14 to 21 of May, and on 23 of May - in the capital of Abkhazia Sukhum.

Eight questions have been adopted to be on the agenda of the next meeting within the frames of the Mechanisms on prevention and reaction on incidents (MPRI). It has been reported IA "Res" at the office of the Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on questions of the post conflict settlement. It has been noted there that the meeting was conducted by Mr. Yussi Saressalo - a Deputy of the Mission of the EU observers who was appointed instead of Mr. Hansyorg Haber, whose term of power has been expired this year. Instead of the co-chairman of Geneva debates from OSCE Mr. Giedrius Chekuolis, the co-leading of the meeting was a secretary of OSCE Mr. Donatas Butkhus. As reported by the acting leader of the working group within the frames of MPRI from South Ossetia Guram Sobaev; the participants of the meeting have traditionally surveyed the incidents, which took place beyond both sides of the boundary of South Ossetia and Georgia, in particular, it was being discussed a question about the detained citizens of Georgia who violated the border of the RSO. "Three main questions have been emphasized in the course of the meeting: about the fate of the detained persons for both sides, the exit permit, in exclusive cases, to the place of incidents for confirming or rejecting the facts of violating the boundary of the RSO with the representatives of the Border Management of the Federal Security Service (FSS) of the RF in the RSO, the Border Service of the Committee of the State Security of the RSO and also the representatives of the Mission of the Observers of the European Union, as well as a question of providing safety in the area close to the boundary of South Ossetia and Georgia during the agricultural works ", - he has emphasized.

On Thursday, 5 May the next meeting within the framework of the Mechanisms on prevention and reaction on incidents (MPRI) is planned to be conducted in the Georgian village Dvani bordered upon South Ossetia. It has been reported the IA "Res" by the representative of the Administration of the president of the RSO on questions of the post-conflict settlement. "There are eight questions on the agenda, which have been already approved for discussion at the meeting. Also the other questions, which may arise directly before the meeting will be discussed», - have noted the representative.

The Joint military maneuvers consolidate friendship between South Ossetia and Russia. It has been declared today by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Land forces, a general-colonel Alexander Postnikov in the course of the meeting with the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity and the Command of the Ministry of Defence of the RSO in Tskhinval.

Fatima Gazzaeva, 1955 d.b., a dweller of a village Khvtce Dzausky region, RSO:
I often heard about the history of genocide of the ossetian people in the twenties of the XX century from my grandmother Gano Dzhagaeva. When the punitive detachments of the Georgian menshevists assaulted upon the villages of South Ossetia, my grandmother lived in the village Zghubir in Dzausky region. She was married and had four small children. The family was large and friendly.

Having speech at the XIII convention of the Liberal-Democratic party of the Republic of Belarus, a Chairman of the party Sergey Gaydukevich has appealed to the leadership of Belarus to acknowledge South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It has been reported the IA «RES by the press-service of the National Party of the RSO. "Returning to the issue of recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia we’ve addressed to the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on the given question.

Almost two years have passed, as the Russian border-guards have been protecting peaceful life of the people of South Ossetia. Two years ago in accordance with the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia "About the joint efforts on guarding the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia", the Border management of the Federal Security Service of Russia has started patrolling the state border of the Republic.

Tabuev Anatoliy Alekseevich, 1952 d.b., a dweller of Tskhinval.