August 16 South Ossetia is expecting the visit of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Republic of South Ossetia Hugo Jose Garcia Hernandez.
A friendly match between the national football team of South Ossetia and the Serbian national football team from Kosovo has been held at the Republican stadium named after Guram Tskhovrebov in Tskhinval. The Serbian side was represented by a team- the winner of the mini-football tournament annually held in Serbia in memory of the 17-year-old Serb Dmitry Popovich killed by the Albanian gunmen.
The Russian government delegation led by Deputy Minister of Regional Development of Russia Sergei Vereshchagin continues its work in South Ossetia.
Today, representatives of the Russian ministries and departments went to Leningor district where they were inspecting the socio-economic facilities, studying the economic situation in the district for the upcoming program of socio-economic development of South Ossetia.
An exhibition of photographs related to the Republic of South Ossetia has opened in the Slovak Republic. The exhibition is organized within the frames of cooperation between the People's Party youth wing of South Ossetia under the chairmanship of Michael Kochiev and the Association of Slovak Youth led by Slavomir Yanchok.
President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov has congratulated the tripleOlympic champion, the world-renowned Ossetian freestyle wrestler Arthur Taymazov on his victory at the Olympic Games in London.