The Russian Office of Prosecutor General classed the blasts at the gas pipeline in North Ossetia as terrorism. "The criminal case was initiated by the chief department of the Office of Prosecutor General of the South Federal Okrug and is being investigated according to Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code," Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolay Shepel stated on Wednesday. He reminded that earlier the North Ossetian Prosecutor's Office qualified the blasts as "deliberate damage of property" and noted that a criminal case was also initiated over the explosion of the power grid in Karachaevo-Cherkesia that supplied Georgia with electricity. Russian Deputy Prosecutor General dismissed as nonsense the statements by Georgian authority on the possible implication of the Russian special services in the diversion at the gas pipeline blasts in North Ossetia.

To remind, explosions at the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline in North Ossetia occurred on the night of Sunday. Explosive devices detonated on main and reserve branches of the North Caucasus-Transcaucasus pipeline, one in twenty minutes after another. The explosions were equivalent of 700-800 g of TNT. The Russian Prosecution regards it as a diversion. Georgia receives Russian gas through transit via Azerbaijan, where Gazprom increased the amount of gas supplies, and Armenia uses gas from the Abovyan underground gas reservoir