EXTRACT FROM THE DECISION OF THE 14th SESSION OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN OBLAST COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE 20TH CONVOCATION on Moratorium of Purchasing and Selling the Houses and on “propiska” Procedures on the Territory of the Oblast.

Taking into account serious complication of demographic situation in the Oblast, unlawful purchasing of real estates, unauthorized appropriation of land, breach of passport regime and increasing pressure on the authorities of the Oblast from the side of informal organizations of the Republic aimed at unlawful possession of land, as well as forcible deportation of Ossetian ethnic from the villages with Georgian majority of population, the 14th Session of the South Ossetian oblast Council of People’s Deputies of the 20th Convocation decrees:

1. To declare the moratorium on purchasing and selling the real estates and houses without prior approval of the Commission on Refugees and Displaced persons of the Oblast Council.

Chairman of the Ispolcom of the Council

of People’s Deputiesof the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast F. Zaseev

Secretary of the Ispolcom of the Council

of People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast I. Kokoev

20 September 1990

(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 202, 26 October 1990)