The Russian government is not interested what estimations are given by NATO to the elections conducted in S.O. Dmitri Rogozin, Russian Federation's permanents representative to NATO said commenting the declaration of Andres Fogh Rasmussen about the elections in South Ossetia. Rasmussen underlined that NATO does not recognizes the elections in Tskkhinvali region as valid and legitimate once and that NATO still upholds the territorial integrity of Georgia in its internationally recognized brooders.

"NATO has no competence in such questions and cannot make such declarations. This is not a humanitarian organization and it has not own observers in the region and at the elections, " - Rogozin sad.

For information, at the Russia occupied territory - S.O. Presidential elections are conducting. 11 candidates are taking part in elations campaign. At the beginning they were 17, for the elections day the number of candidates decreased to 11. As well Ossetians are going to conduct the referendum concerning a status of Russian language. At the same time NATO and EU declared that they are not seeing these elections as valid ones.