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The official signing of a cooperation agreement between South Ossetia and the Festival Directorate will take place on the sidelines of the upcoming International Youth Festival in Yekaterinburg. This was announced by Alan Tibilov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office of the Republic, during a press conference in Tskhinval dedicated to the results of the visit of the Directorate representative Artem Fomin.

According to Tibilov, South Ossetian youth are showing tremendous interest in the World Youth Festival projects.

South Ossetian State University and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (have signed a cooperation agreement.

The document was signed during a working meeting between the SOSU Rector Vadim Tedeev and the Institute's Director Alikber Alikberov, according to the university's press service.

"The agreement comes into force upon signing and is intended for long-term cooperation with the possibility of subsequently expanding the formats of interaction.

Sergey Kiriyenko is the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office of Russia.

He came to the place where cars are checked at the border. This place is called the Lower Zaramag automobile checkpoint.

They discussed how to improve and develop the automobile checkpoint. Sergey Kiriyenko was accompanied by the Head of North Ossetia, Sergey Menyailo.

This is one of the strategically important facilities that connects Russia and South Ossetia.

Following his official visit to South Ossetia, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko outlined new areas of the Russian-South Ossetian cooperation in healthcare, which were discussed at the meeting with Acting President of the Republic of South Ossetia Marat Kambolov.

The South Ossetian delegation took part in a roundtable discussion with the heads of foreign government agencies (organizations) responsible for the enforcement of court decisions.

The event was held at the 2026 St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF).

Alan Dzhioev, Acting Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Republic of South Ossetia, Vadim Dzhagaev, Chief Bailiff of the Republic of South Ossetia, represented South Ossetia at the roundtable discussion.

Georgia continues to pursue destructive polic instead of addressing domestic issues and genuinely protecting the rights of its citizens, which the European institutions have recently repeatedly emphasized.

This is noted in a comment by a representative of the South Ossetian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the part of the Georgian Public Defender's report concerning the Republic of South Ossetia.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has emphasized that the latest report presents distorted and inaccurate information.

Ambassador of South Ossetia to Russia Znaur Gassiev, at the invitation of Sergey Shitkov, Director of the Diplomatic Academy at MGIMO University, took part in the 12th embassy roundtable discussion on "The Ukrainian Crisis: The West's True Goals and Role." This was reported by the Embassy press service.

The event was opened by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who in his speech presented facts demonstrating the West's destructive role in the formation of the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv and the emergence and escalation of the conflict around Ukraine.

On June 20, the 106th anniversary of the tragic events of 1920, a nationwide minute of silence was held in South Ossetia in memory of the victims of the genocide of the Ossetian people.

At exactly 12:00, life stopped for one minute throughout the country. Institutions closed their doors, drivers stopped their vehicles, and passersby stood still in tribute to the victims.

The South Ossetian State Security Committee (KGB) reported the detention and subsequent deportation of the Georgian citizen from the Republic.

According to the agency's press service, on June 6, the South Ossetian border guards detained Mamuka Bagauri, a 48-year-old resident of the village of Jria in Georgia's Sachkhere Municipality, for violating the state border regulations.

"It was established that the violator had unintentionally crossed the state border near the South Ossetian village of Sinagur in Dzau District," the press service has noted.

President Alan Gagloev laid a wreath at the monument to the special police unit (OMON) of the South Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs perished defending the approaches to the southeastern outskirts of Tskhinval, the presidential press service reports.

"On June 7, 1992, during another assault on Tskhinval by the Georgian neo-Nazis, the OMON officers put up fierce resistance. Six members of the unit were killed during the battle.