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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.

Рeople of South Ossetia will always be grateful to the people of fraternal Venezuela for recognizing the Republic's statehood, the South Ossetian Ambassador to Russia Znaur Gassiev said during a meeting with the Venezuelan delegation on the sidelines of the 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was led by Ricardo Menendez, Vice President for Planning and Minister of People's Power for Planning, according to the press service of the South Ossetian Embassy in Russia.

Тhe resolution on refugees and displaced persons from South Ossetia and Abkhazia, initiated by Georgia, once again demonstrates a blatant disregard for reality and the imposition of a one-sided position that ignores the true causes and consequences of the events, the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry stated, commenting on the document adopted yesterday at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly.

"Unfortunately, this once-respected international forum has in recent years become a vehicle for Georgia's destructive policies against the Ossetian and Abkhaz peoples.

At the 29th International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg a trilateral cooperation agreement was signed between the Embassy of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation, the High-Tech Medical Care Charitable Foundation, and the S.A. Kirov Military Medical Academy.

The agreement was signed by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Znaur Gassiev, Chairman of the Foundation's Board Sergey Fursenko, and the Head of the Military Medical Academy Evgeny Kryukov.

A meeting between the delegation of the Republic of South Ossetia, led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia Znaur Gassiev, and the delegation of Republika Srpska, led by Milorad Dodik, Chairman of the Union of Independent Social Democrats, took place on the sidelines of the 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

A delegation from the South Ossetian Embassy, ​​led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Znaur Gassiev, is participating in the 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2026), which opened on Wednesday.

According to the Embassy's press service, the Republic is planning to conclude cultural and economic cooperation agreements on the sidelines of the Forum.

Resuming the work on a document on the non-use of force is a key issue in the Geneva Discussions, and all participants recognize its importance. The UN Co-Chair Mohamed Khaled Khiari stated this during a press conference with journalists.

"This work must continue, and we discuss these issues at every round. The issue of resuming the work on the document has been discussed today and will be on the agenda of the 67th round," Khiari has emphasized.

The UN Co-Chair expressed hope for achieving "certain concrete results" on this issue.

South Ossetian President Alan Gagloev sent a telegram of condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin following the tragic loss of civilian life in the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces drone on a Moscow-Simferopol bus.

In his telegram of condolences, Gagloev called it a monstrous crime against civilians that could not be justified.

Tskhinvali is alarmed by the resumption of kidnappings in Georgia, stated Konstantin Kochiev, head of the South Ossetian delegation and State Advisor to the President, during a meeting with the UN, OSCE, and EU Co-Chairs of the Geneva Discussions in Tskhinval.

"Student Tamaz Goloev, who was traveling to a neighboring state on business, was kidnapped, and we are very concerned about his fate. This is a very negative signal for our process, for discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia," Kochiev said.