Employee of "International Alert" banned from working in South Ossetia

The Committee for State Security (known as KGB) of South Ossetia has prohibited Larisa Sotieva, an employee of the British non-profit organization (NPO) "International Alert", to implement projects in the territory of South Ossetia. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the press service of the KGB that a respective warning to Sotieva was issued on June 25.

According to the KGB of South Ossetia, while working for the above British NPO, Larisa Sotieva "collected information on whether there are contradictions between South Ossetia and Russia in political, social and economic spheres."

According to the KGB of South Ossetia, the NPO "International Alert" "is preparing for the implementation of projects aimed at training South-Ossetian youth leaders in the basics of social protest engineering, which can form the foundation for implementing various kinds of "orange technologies" in the republic.

The KGB made an official warning to Sotieva "about the inadmissibility of her actions in the NPO, which are contrary to national interests of South Ossetia."

In the opinion of journalist Alan Tskhurbaev, the author of the blog "Ossetia and around: look from inside" on the "Caucasian Knot", the statements of the KGB of South Ossetia against Larisa Sotieva are ungrounded; and the local security services, by forbidding Sotieva to implement projects, are just "humiliating local intelligentsia."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.