The regular meeting of the mechanisms of prevention and reaction to incidents (MPRI) has been held today at the frontier Georgian village of Dvani. The meeting was attended by representatives of Russia, South Ossetia, Georgia, the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia and the OSCE.
Any facts of falsification and irregularities have not been fixed during the election process in South Ossetia. It has been declared the journalists by the representative of the Russian fund of free elections, the Vice-President of the Peace and Harmony Federation at the briefing of the Central Election Committee informational centre, Professor Gennady Mikhajlov. According to him, only irregularities on technical reasons, which cannot affect the voting results, have taken place. «We were working in two districts of the Republic-Tskhinvalskiy and Znaurskiy, where we managed to visit nine polling stations.
On the eve of presidential elections in South Ossetia, a forum of supporters of the presidential candidate of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov "Ossetian breakthrough: unity, order and development", has been held in Tskhinval organized under the aegis of the Republican Political Party "Unity". Prominent politicians and public figures of South Ossetia and Russia gathered at the central square to support the candidacy of Anatoly Bibilov, as well as his supporters. The President of the RSO Eduard Kokoity, the Chairman of the Committee on the Duma International Affairs, a member of the faction "United Russia" Konstantin Kosachev, the head of North Ossetia - Alania Taymuraz Mamsurov, Deputy Chairman of the North Ossetian Parliament, Stanislav Kesaev, the Chairman of the Communist Party of South Ossetia Stanislav Kochiev, a poet-academician Nafi Dzhussoyty, Ambassador Extraordinary and Ambassador to the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation Dmitry Medoev, representatives of the State Duma, Federation Council, the Emergency Situations Ministry and others have appeared on the stage.
Children's rehabilitation center will be built in the capital of South Ossetia. As the Minister of Health and Social Development of South Ossetia Otarbeg Gassiev has informed IA "Res", construction of this facility is part of the investment program of promoting socio-economic development of South Ossetia.
Representatives of the International Election Observation «CIS-EMO» will monitor the presidential elections in South Ossetia, which will be held on November 13, 2011. It has been declared by representatives of this organization, arrived in South Ossetia with a working visit, at the press conference in Tskhinval. According to the Director General of CIS-EMO Alexei Kochetkov, the mission of observers is established by the International Organization for elections monitoring.
A citizen of Georgia is detained for illegal crossing of the frontier of South Ossetia. As informed by the KGB of the RSO press-service to the IA"RES", yesterday, on October, 18, the citizen of Georgia was detained by the Russian boundary control group near the settlement Gvirgvina in Znaurskiy District of the republic. «The arrested person is transferred to the KGB of the RSO frontier service. At present, the investigation on establishing the facts of crossing the state border is being carried on.
Within the limits of celebrating the Day of Culture of South Ossetia in the Stavropol Territory, timed to birthday of the founder of the Ossetian literary language Kosta Khetagurov, two exhibitions will be opened today in the city of Pyatigorsk. As the organizer of the celebratory actions, the director of the House of national cultures of Pyatigorsk Emma Beteeva-Dzitsieva has phoned to the news agency "RES", the celebration will begin with opening the children's exhibition «Children of Tskhinval are drawing».
Progress in drafting the legal document obliging Georgia not to apply force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia, has not been reached at the 17th round of the Geneva discussions, being held on October, 3-4.
In the capital of South Ossetia the new micro-district "Northern" is under construction in the northeast part of Tskhinval. As the Minister for Capital, Road building and Architecture Chermen Khugaev has informed the IA RES, the contracting agency "StrojArs-n" headed by Konstantin Dzhussoev, is engaged in the construction. «At this stage four five-floor houses of the improved lay-out, including 45 apartments each one, are under construction in the micro-district.
The Georgian officials should thoroughly study a concept "occupation". It has been declared to the news agency "Res" by the Plenipotentiary of the RSO President on post-conflict settlement Boris Chochiev, making comments on the statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia Grigol Vashadze that the next year the basic priority of work of the Georgian state will be the withdrawal of the Russian troops from the "occupied territory" and beginning of the peace operation.
