Мария Котаева

Resignation of the government, the legislative gap in the Constitution of South Ossetia on the lack of specific terms of the government formation and the new candidates for the post of Prime Minister of the Republic was discussed at a briefing of journalists with the Chairman of the State Committee of Information and Press of South Ossetia Vyacheslav Gobozov.

South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov has received the clergy of the Alanian Diocese and the 4-th Russian military base. The meeting was also attended by the Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on religion Sonia Khubaeva.
The President congratulated those present on Christmas holiday, expressing the hope that in 2014 the church and the state will cooperate fruitfully.

December 31 in the Georgian frontier village of Ergneti South Ossetian authorities handed over to the Georgian side its citizen Taymuraz Dzherapov.
As reported to IA «RES» Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Republic of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev, Dzherapov was pardoned by the Executive Order of the President of the RSO Leonid Tibilov.
"Taking into account the requests of parents of the prisoners- citizens of South Ossetia kept in Georgian prisons, the President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov pardoned a citizen of Georgia Dzherapov, which is handed over to the Georgian side. November 15, 2010 Dzherapov was sentenced by the Supreme Court of South Ossetia to 13 years imprisonment for attempting to illegally seizing and retaining power. Today's action was an act of mercy and humanity showed by the leadership of South Ossetia,"- said Dzhioev.
He has noted that the pardon and transfer of Dzherapov to the Georgian side is the confirmation of readiness to work towards mutual release of citizens.
South Ossetian Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement has stressed that the authorities of Georgia have not yet realized the necessity of mutual release of prisoners.
"The issue of mutual release of prisoners - citizens of South Ossetia and Georgia-has repeatedly been brought up for discussion in the framework of the Geneva discussions, as well as at the meetings of the Mechanisms to prevent and respond to incidents. The work on this issue is carried out constantly, though we have not yet reached mutual understanding with the Georgian side. However, it should be noted that in the summer of 2013 was released a citizen of the Republic of South Ossetia Marik Dudaev, sentenced to long-term imprisonment by the Georgian court, and all these years we had been seeking his release, and thank God, now he is at home,"- said Dzhioev.
He added that as the last round of the Geneva Discussions co-chairs of South Ossetia had stressed the necessity of revision of the judgments on the three citizens of South Ossetia, sentenced to life imprisonment in Georgia.
"All the three citizens of South Ossetia were convicted solely for political reasons, on trumped-up charges. We offered the Georgian side to reconsider those judgments passed under the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. Unfortunately, to date, this issue is not resolved, but to encourage a solution to this issue, the South Ossetian side has made the act of pardon and released Dzherapov,"- has underlined Dzhioev, expressing the hope that this step will be appreciated by the Georgian side.

The South Ossetian authorities handed over to the Georgian side a citizen of Georgia Temur Gagloev, previously convicted for violation of the state border.
As the news agency "Res" has been reported at the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia, Gagloev was handed over to the authorities of Georgia on November 15 in the border village of Ergneti in the course of the meeting in the format of MPRI.
"In May 2013 Gagloev was detained for illegal crossing of the state border of South Ossetia in Znaur district of South Ossetia. During the detention Gagloev explained that he asked for political asylum. He was granted a residence permit and refugee status," - said the KGB press -service official.
After six months of stay on the territory of South Ossetia, Gagloev within a group of offenders was again detained at attempt of illegal crossing the state border with Georgia.
For the second attempt of crossing the border Gagloev was deprived the status of refugee and sentenced to one year conditionally for illegal crossing of the state border.
Two months later it was decided to deport Gagloev to Georgia.
The press service of the RSO KGB noted that Gagloev - born in the Ochamchire district of Abkhazia, - lived on the territory of Georgia in the town of Gori.

Residents of the Georgian villages bordering on South Ossetia, have expressed their dissatisfaction with the engineering constructive works at the state border of the Republic. In turn, the South Ossetian authorities say they are ready to discuss with the representatives of Tbilisi the delimitation issues, as this is the subject of a bilateral agreement.
September 25 residents of the Georgian village of Dvani expressed their discontent with the delimitation works at the state border of South Ossetia.

A delegation of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Russia has arrived in South Ossetia on a working visit. In the capital of the Republic the guests were received by the Minister of Health and Social Development of South Ossetia Gregory Kulidzhanov. The visit and the meeting are held as part of the action plan " to develop a system of labor protection and drafting of legal acts in the field of occupational safety and health conditions in the Republic of South Ossetia," signed by the RSO Ministry of Health and Social Development and the RF Ministry of Labor May 6, 2013.

Attracting investors in South Ossetia may facilitate early revival of the industry in the Republic, expressed his vision of the development of the industrial sector Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Guram Melkoev at a press conference at the International Press Center in Tskhinval.

Four Georgian citizens detained in South Ossetia for violation of the border regime, have been deported to the Georgian territory. As IA "Res" was reported by the spokesman of the KGB Border Guard Service of South Ossetia Robert Gazzaev, "in accordance with the court decision, the infiltrators were fined 500 rubles, and then they were in due course handed over to the Georgian authorities."

Delegation of representatives of the Presidential Administration and the Ministry of Health of Russia has arrived in South Ossetia on a working visit.

The fifth anniversary of the August 2008 aggression the South Ossetian society is marking in a state of serious national depression. This opinion was expressed by the Chairman of the State Committee of Information and Press of South Ossetia Vyacheslav Gobozov at yesterday's meeting of experts at the Media Centre "Ir", which participants had discussed the status of South Ossetia and the Republic as a whole, after five years of the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia in August 2008.