In the evening, of October, 9 the Central Election Committee of South Ossetia has finished acceptance of subscription lists from the registered initiative groups, nominating the candidates for forthcoming presidential elections in the Republic on November, 13. As IA RES has been informed at the Central Election Committee, all the registered initiative groups submitted the necessary quantity of signatures to the Central Election Committee according to the current legislation. According to the Central Election Committee «at the given stage the Committee will continue studying the documents and till October, 19 the initiative groups will receive an official reply about registration of their nominees». It should be noted that for today nine persons have been registered as the presidential candidates. Certificates of candidates for the Presidency are issued to : Vladimir Kelekhsaev (the deputy of the RSO Parliament of two previous convocations), Alan Kochiev- a trainer of the weightlifting juvenile sports school, Vadim Tskhovrebov- a director of the bakery products enterprise, the deputy of the RSO Parliament ("Unity"), Dmitry Tasoev - the leader of the Social-Democratic party liquidated in March, 2011 at the suit of the Ministry of Justice of the RSO, Ajvar Bestaev - the branch manager of the Republican hospital in Tskhinval, the First Deputy of the Head of Administration of Tskhinval Alan Kotaev, the Minister for Emergency Situations of the RSO Anatoly Bibilov, Soslan Tedety - commanding officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RSO and the chief bailiff of the Ministry of Justice RSO Sergey Bitiev. In total 28 initiative groups and two political parties have addressed the Central Election Committee. The Central Election Committee of South Ossetia has refused registration of the initiative groups, nominating Vasily Bestaev (a member of the Advocatory chamber of the RSO-Alania), Lev Gagiev (a surgeon of the Republican somatic hospital), Dzhambolat Tedeev (the head coach of the Russian national team on free-style wrestling) and the ex-Minister of Defence of the RSO Valery Tedeev for presidential election. Dzhambolat Tedeev is going to appeal against the decision of the Central Election Committee. The Central Election Committee of the RSO will return a verdict on the other presidential nominees not later than October, 19
