Thursday, 1 December 2011Review of the Russian press of November 30, 2011. In a review of Russian newspapers:
The situation in South Ossetia has again become a topic of discussion on the front pages of Russian newspapers. Kommersant wrote that the Supreme Court of South Ossetia abrogated the results of presidential elections, which, according to the Central Electoral Commission, resulted in a confident victory of the opposition candidate Ally Dzhioeva. She left the Kremlin-backed Anatoly Bibilov behind. "The consequences of the court decision may be the most unpredictable, the former Defense Minister of South Ossetia Anatoly Barankevich said, It may even shed blood," he suggests. The publication says that the decision to cancel the presidential election results posed the threat of civil war for South Ossetia. The level of dissatisfaction with the authorities in the country is high, and lots of weapons are in the hands of people.
Kommersant also published an interview with Alla Dzhioeva, which tells how she intends to defend her victory. In her opinion, the decision of the Supreme Court, which invalidated the election results, was influenced by the current President Kokoity, "who is the personification of lawlessness in South Ossetia." "He could not adequately rule the country and cannot transfer power in a civilized manner," Alla Dzhioeva said. She says she intends to resist: "They want to steal our victory. But we will stand till the end! It is frosty outside, but there are thousands of supporters near my headquarters. I asked them to disperse till the morning, but they do not obey. They say they will stay till victory. I decline all responsibility. I have never come out of the legal field, but a flywheel will not stop. There, where there is 7-8 thousand now, tomorrow it will be 12 thousand, then 17 thousand and so on," she predicts.
Also, the candidate stated that the group of her supporters had returned from the meeting with her opponent Bibilov: "... he told them, that he would be willing to admit defeat, but the Kremlin does not allow doing this." However, Alla Dzhioeva is not inclined to trust these words: "On Wednesday we will take these supporters to the street, and I hope that President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin will report about the real situation in South Ossetia. I very much doubt that they received information about the events here in a correct way, " she said.
Izvestia wrote that the recognition of the election results as invalid put South Ossetia on the brink of collapse. The newspaper reports that the Parliament of South Ossetia during an emergency meeting on Tuesday night set a date for the re-election of the president, which is March 25, 2012. Dzhioeva is prohibited from participating in it, while the participation of Bibilov is under question.
Novaya Gazeta states that the proponents of Alla Dzhioeva publicly accused Eduard Kokoity of seizure of power, and announced that Moscow had stolen their victory: "And now they [supporters of Dzhioeva] threaten large-scale protests, up to armed conflict. From the mountain villages buses bring supporters of the opposition to Tskhinvali," the newspaper writes. After the Supreme Court's decision to abolish the elections, the situation in South Ossetia escalated. "We will carry out peaceful actions of disobedience, one of the opposition campaign leaders exiled Dzhioev said to Novaya Gazeta, until we prove that our victory has been stolen. We are afraid of an armed clash, but people are angry, and it is impossible to predict the situation," he says.
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Thursday, 1 December 2011
Translated and Revised by Viktoriia Demydova
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