Kokoity demands to accelerate restoration works in Tskhinvali

On February 2, President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity held a working meeting with representatives of subcontracting organizations. This time as well, the agenda comprised the issues of restoration rates and timely financing of construction projects. Mr Kokoity promised to take work-in-progress away from dishonest contractors. City dwellers, in their turn, continue complaining of the quality of erected houses, as well as schools, hospitals and kindergartens; residents of Tskhinvali need the infrastructure same as roofs over their heads.

Eduard Kokoity promised to open criminal cases against those bosses of building organizations who receive money but fail to pay salaries to their builders.

He also touched on the issue of mutual relations between invited builders and local population. "Friendship of our nations is crucial for me, and I'll never let certain provokers split the brotherly Chechen, Dagestan, Ossetian and Russian people. At the same time, they should behave correctly in public places with local residents and not to provoke conflicts," he said.

Information is available that South Ossetia had not known certain new types of narcotic drugs, which are now spread by building workers from other republics. The President promised to break all contracts with those contractors, where drug seller will be detected, irrespective of the object they build. The object will no to another contractor.

"They say that the window units installed in our houses emit poisonous smell when heated by sunshine. We're seriously afraid for our children's health," said Marina Dzhioeva, who lives in the Privokzalnaya Street.

107 million roubles were spent to repair the republic's hospital; however, when examining the building Vadim Brovtsev, chairman of the government of South Ossetia, noted that the quality of repair works is inferior to what could be expected for that money. Doctors of the hospital say that in spite of complete replacement of all the piping, hospital WC-and-bathroom units do not work, and the cellar is full of water.

Meanwhile, many residents of Tskhinvali, who have not yet moved into the long-promised new houses, count days till the end of the winter and hope for good weather, as some of the families who lost their houses are spending their second winter in tents.