A hand-over of seven Georgian citizens serving their sentence or under investigation in South Ossetia and equal number of South Ossetians detained in Georgia took place today at the borderline between South Ossetia and Georgia.
The agreement on this hand-over was reached at 17 February meeting within the frames of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism.
Heavy snowfalls in South Ossetia complicated road connection with remote villages of Znaur District. As the Head of Znaur District Administration Zaur Tskhovrebov reported to IA RES, the snow cleaning works are actively ongoing southward, as well as in the dirction to Tsnelis valley. "Today, all capacities are mobilized to clean the village roads from snow.
Close working relations between the Prosecutor's Offices of the RF and South Ossetia contribute to stabilization in the work against criminality, stated the first Deputy Prosecutor General of South Ossetia Eldar Kokoev. According to him, Russian specialists provided an invaluable support in the disclosure of crimes committed by Georgian aggressors against humanity on the territory of South Ossetia.
It is expected that a hand over of citizens either serving their sentence or under investigation in South Ossetia and Georgia will take place in the village of Ergneti at the boundary line between South Ossetia and Georgia, reported the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev.
The president of the World congress of people in Georgia Alexander Ebralidze is the terminator of freedom of multinational population of South Ossetia, as the president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. This declaration has been made today to the IA «Res» by the independent expert Inal Pliev, commenting the statement of A. Ebralidze at the press-conference at the central office of «Interfax», that «reconstruction of relations of Georgia with South Osetia and Abkhazia will be the part of our program. We see the model of intergration within the frames of confederation».
Some answers of the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia A. K. Lucashevich to the questions of Mass Media. February, 17. 2011
Question: Having speech at the Parliament of Georgia, Saakashivli again made a statement of his readiness for having a dialogue with Russia. How could you comment his words?
A round-table focusing on civil society related issues was held in Tskhinval. The round-table was organized by Council of Young Specialists to the city branch of "Yedinstvo" political party. The South Ossetian president's advisor Kosta Dzugaev, member of "Yedinstvo" Eleonora Bedoeva, as well as representatives of the Council of Young Specialists, youth and journalists participated in the round-table discussion.
Kosta Dzugaev noted that the problem of civil society was quite acute in South Ossetia. "Civil society is a group of socially active people. With the current situation in our society, the attitude of socially active people to the problems of our public and political life is particularly important". Dzugaev gave a broad explanation of the current situation with the civil society.
Signing the agreement in the field of geological studying and exploring the depths of earth says of dynamic development of the bi-lateral intergovernmental relations between South Ossetia and Russia. It was declared by the president of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoyty, at the briefing, which had taken place in Tskhinval after the ceremony of signing the intergovernmental agreement in the field of geological studying and exploring. the depths of earth. "This event will also promote the development of preservation of environmental activities and exploring the depths of earth in South Ossetia", - has emphasized Kokoyty.
South Ossetia and Georgia are intending to continue the discussing of the issue of transmitting the convicted on February 17 in the boundary georgian village Ergneti. The Head of the South-Ossetian delegation Merab Chigoev informed IA "RES" of this fact. Three-lateral meeting within the framework of joint mechanisms on prevention and reaction on the incidents (MPRI) will be conducted
Fotoexhibition "Kosovo - South Osetiya: the glance inside out" will be opened tomorrow, February 17, in Russian museum in Nizhny Novgorod. The author Nataliya Batraeva reported IA "RES", that 100 photographies in genre of reporting will be exposed at the exhibition.As she says, the georgian-ossetian war in August 2008 had very oppressive impression on her. "The whole meaning of the five-day war we are not able to understand, it is enough to say that the operation on abolishion was identified on-georgian "Tsminda veli" that is translated, as "Clean field".
