'Domodedovo' echoes from Tskhinvali

The recent act of terror at Moscow's Domodedovo airport met with a broad response in South Ossetia. President Eduard Kokoity presented his condolences to President Medvedev and condemned terrorism in all its forms, saying that nothing can justify the slaughter of innocent people. He also stressed that terrorism has no ethnicity or faith. Other Ossetian officials also sent their condolences to the Russian people, calling on them as well as their fellow Ossetians to unite in the face of the threat of terrorism.

"We should prevent our community from falling apart because of its fears and panic. The law enforcement agencies should implement severe measures to protect innocent people, but the public should engage in combating this evil as well. It is our common cause," Ossetian MP Elena Yashina said.

Stanislav Djioev, the head of the South Ossetian mission in Vladikavkaz, suggested that all political parties and public organizations as well as cultural centers and religious denominations, the police and all ordinary people should act together to contribute to the struggle against terrorism.

Other Ossetian public figures proposed organizing an international anti-terrorist 'round table' and calling an extraordinary UN session to discuss issues of international terrorism, as it threatens the lives of people all over the world. They also pointed out that concern and anxiety is growing within Russian society as it poses the question as to whether there are any efficient means against terrorism at all.

According to South Ossetian experts, financing of anti-terrorist activities should be increased, while all sources of the terrorists' money should be found and eliminated. Terrorism thrives upon poverty, corruption, religious fanaticism, unemployment, social tensions and moral degradation. The Russian community needs a new unifying ideology, as terrorism should be fought by all means possible.

Tengiz Doguzov, Tskhinvali. Exclusively for VK