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South Ossetia will take part in the World Cup under the auspices of the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (ConIFA) in 2020, Sergey Zasseev, head of the South Ossetian Youth policy, Sports and Tourism Committee, said at a press conference in Tskhinval.

“We, as winners of the European Championships, officially entered the tournament grid. Ahead of us is the World Cup, which must be held at the level. Undoubtedly, it will become an event of grandiose scale,” Zasseev said.

In Milan, was held a meeting of the initiative group to create the Italy-South Ossetia-Alania Friendship Association with the participation of the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev, who is on a European tour. According to the press service of the Foreign Ministry of South Ossetia, the meeting took place in the mansion of the well-known in Italy charitable organization Societa benefica el salvadanee de la montagneta.

The event was attended by representatives of the public of Milan and other cities of Italy, Italian media.

The situation in the village of Uista (Tsnelis) in Znaur district of the Republic of South Ossetia worsened at the end of August this year, when Georgian police illegally put up a roadblock on the territory of South Ossetia. Representatives of the Georgian armed forces immediately appeared at the post, which could not but frighten the South Ossetian residents living in the border territories of this region. The villagers turned to the authorities of the Republic for help, and in order to ensure the security of the South Ossetian residents, South Ossetia put up its post.

The Leningor district court ruled against the violator of the state border of South Ossetia with Georgia, Vazha Gaprindashvili, the KGB of South Ossetia reports.

“On November 15, 2019, by a decision of the Leningor District Court regarding the previously detained Georgian citizen Gaprindashvili Vazh Dzhondoevich, a preventive measure was taken in the form of detention for the duration of the preliminary investigation (for a period of 2 months),” the KGB statement said.

Deputies of the Parliament of South Ossetia will participate in the annual international conference: "The role of the interaction of factions of political parties and blocs in interparliamentary cooperation of the CIS countries." The Forum will be held on November 19 in the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

As part of a trip to Moscow, parliamentarians will also meet at the Federation Council of Russia.

The situation is escalating today around the perimeter of the borders of South Ossetia, "Tskhinval regards these actions as" conscious and demonstrative destabilization by the ruling Tbilisi regime

The issue of introducing international peacekeepers to South Ossetia was closed after the 2008 aggression, when the troops of the-then Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili shot and killed soldiers of the peacekeeping contingent stationed in South Ossetia, Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev told RIA Novosti.

A long-announced transit through South Ossetia to Georgia can work under the condition that the South Ossetian side will participate in this international economic project on equal terms with other participants, as an equal partner, Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev told RIA Novosti.

The opening of a permanent representation of South Ossetia in Germany is a matter of the foreseeable future, the head of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Medoev told RIA Novosti.

Medoev is on a 10-day business trip in a number of Western European countries. In Berlin, he took part in the constituent assembly of the Club of Friends of South Ossetia, and also held a number of meetings, including in the regional Parliament of Berlin.

The European Union, UN and OSCE co-chairs of the Geneva international discussions on Transcaucasia are planning to visit Moscow, Tskhinval, Sukhum and Tbilisi next week, Toivo Klaar, the EU special representative for the South Caucasus, told media.

Commenting on the topics of the upcoming meetings, Klaar called one of the main issues the tense situation on the Georgian border with South Ossetia, in particular, in the area of ​​the border villages of Chorchana and Tsnelis, where the Georgian side put up a police post.

Minister of Culture of South Ossetia, Zhanna Zasseeva, will take part in the VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, which will be held in the northern capital of Russia from14 - 16 November, the press service of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of South Ossetia told IA “Res”.