Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

The question on the order of crossing the frontier of the Republic of South Ossetia and Georgia in a check point «Tskhinval-Ergneti" has been considered today at the RSO government session. The head of the RSO KGB frontier service Sergey Kolbin has made a speech in regard to this question. As he said, in November of the last year the government of South Ossetia had approved the list of the points of simplified crossing of the Georgian border by the Republican citizens.

Today in the hero city Tskhinval the solemn ceremony of the Military oath rite by recruits of the Armed forces of the Republic of South Ossetia has taken place at the Eternal Flame on the Heroes Avenue. Several tens of young fighters of the spring conscription 2011 have sworn under the leadership of the RSO Minister of Defence, Major General Valery Jakhnovets. At 17 o'clock, the divisions of the Tskhinvalskiy garrison were drawn up in the dismounted formation in field uniform with automatic machines in hands. The Minister of Defence has reported to the Supreme Commander in Chief, President of the RSO Eduard Kokoity, that the staff is ready for holding the solemn oath rite of the young generation.

In the mourning days devoted to the August war of 2008, the chairman of the International noncommercial Association «Renaissance Saendidzaen» Radion Pukhaev arrived in the RSO. In his interview to the correspondent of the news agency "Res" the head of the organization has told about the purpose of his visit, activity and his further plans.

- Radion, is your organization registered officially in the public authorities of Belgium (how it is called, where and when it is registered)?

- Our organization «Renaissance Saendidzaen» - is registered, and what is much important, it is the international organization. We were registered in 2009 and, certainly, the events of August, 2008 in South Ossetia promoted activization. We were organizing meeting, we tried to defend our point of view against interpretation of these events which prevailed not only in Belgium, but also in the West. I`d like to make an example. We have organized an exhibition; one Belgian journalist has come in and was amazed at what he had seen. «Why in Georgia there are no so large-scale destructions as in Ossetia», - he has asked. I gave him a book about the August events of 2008 in South Ossetia. He said that he would try to write about it through the blogs. I think, we have been right to do it -we should make ourselves known and should not expect for momentary results.

The Russian military bases are located in the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on legal grounds, according to earlier signed interstate agreements. It has been declared the journalists in Tskhinval by the President of the RSO Eduard Kokoity in connection with the ratification of the agreement submitted to the Russian Federation State Duma by the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev on incorporated Russian military base in South Ossetia which was signed in Moscow on April, 7, 2010. «I consider symbolical that the document on ratification has been submitted by President Dmitry Medvedev today, on the third anniversary of the Georgian aggression.

LET THEM ALL BURN IN HELL!

On the 1st of August the Georgians, as usual, shelled the city. That evening seven people were
killed and four wounded in the blasts. These were the first steps to war, the rst challenge thrown out
against the Ossetians, or, more properly, this was a stage of the challenge that has lasted since I was
born, from 1992.

The problem of socio-economic integration of refugees and the displaced persons is one of the most important in our Republic for today. It is a problem of vital importance, which has to be solved in the near future. The head of the department of social support of refugees at the Ministry of health and social development Kazbek Karsanov has informed the news agency «Res» about the state of affairs in this sphere.

News agency "Res": What is the quantity of refugees and the displaced persons from villages of the Republic during the Georgian aggression? What are their conditions of life?

- Today the quantity of refugees and the displaced persons is 3600 men. The majority of them has received this status in the nineties, the others- in 2008-2009. The stream of refugees does not stop, though, it is less than before. Unfortunately, the conditions of life have changed a little. Basically they live in the same public centres. Really, people live in bad conditions; we help them, as we can. But I hope that in the near future the situation will start to change for the better.