Leading Russian MP Visits Tskhinvali

Senior Russian MP Dmitri Rogozin, the leader of the parliamentary faction ?Rodina? (Homeland), met with President of the self-styled South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoev in the capital of breakaway region Tskhinvali on August 31.

?Residents of South Ossetia are citizens of the Russian Federation; hence the Russian Duma Council [lower chamber of the Parliament] can not remain indifferent towards the situation here,? the Press and Information Committee of South Ossetian reported quoting Russian MP Dmitri Rogozin as saying.

Russian MP with close links to Kremlin also said that the South Ossetian conflict can be solved only through the political means.

?And the priority in the settlement process should be the right of rejoining of the Ossetian people,? MP Rogozin added, referring to the Tskhinvali?s demands over unification with Russia?s North Ossetian Republic.