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South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov has presented state awards to officers of law enforcement agencies. The ceremony has been dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day.

«Freedom house» during the preparation of their reports are based on subjective measures that distort the real situation in different countries, told the news agency "Res" Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia David Sanakoev.

A new agreement on partnership and alliance between South Ossetia and Russia will become one of the fundamental documents defining specific mechanisms of bilateral relations and integration processes, expressed his opinion the Chairman of the State Information and Press of South Ossetia Vyacheslav Gobozov in an interview with the news agency "Res", commenting on the statement of the President Leonid Tibilov about the beginning of the preliminary consultations with Russian colleagues on the development of the draft treaty.

President of South Ossetia has recently told reporters about the work on a new treaty on cooperation and partnership with the Russian Federation. What, in your opinion, are the main areas to be considered while drafting this document?

More than 130 leading experts, journalists and political scientists from Russia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, CIS and foreign countries participated in the international conference in Moscow "Public Diplomacy for Eurasian integration."
According to the press service of the Embassy of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation, at the conference were discussed the most urgent and pressing issues of international relations.

Memorandum on cooperation in the field of information has been signed today by leaders of a number of media in South and North Ossetia.
The Chairman of the State Information and Press Committee of the RSO Vyacheslav Gobozov congratulated the journalists on the Day of the National Media. He has stressed that the signing of the memorandum will give a new impetus to the integration process between North and South Ossetia.

Problems of liberal education were discussed at a scientific seminar held January 22-23 at the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Tskhinval. The event was organized by the Moscow State Pedagogical University with the assistance of the Representation of Rossotrudnichestvo.

November 15 - 22 the Border Service of KGB of South Ossetia was considering the cases against four people. Three citizens of Georgia and a citizen of the RSO were detained on November 21 for violation of the state border.
"The case of a citizen of South Ossetia in the near future will be considered in court. Residents of the Georgian village of Tseronisi in Kareli district Alexi Arsenadze and Georgi Tedeshvili were fined 2000 rubles," - said the KGB press-service official.
Currently is being considered the issue of their expulsion from the territory of South Ossetia.
Another citizen of Georgia is under investigation.
According to the press service of the Russian Border Control agency in South Ossetia, November11 - 22, the border guards detained four violators of the state border and 1 violator of the border regime near the villages of Balta, Dzvilet and Artsev.
After drawing up protocols on administrative violations, the detainees were handed over to the Border Service of the KGB of the Republic of South Ossetia.
In addition, during this period were discovered two caches of weapons and ammunition near the villages of Balta and Mugut. The KGB operatives of South Ossetia removed one carbine with cartridges and a heavy caliber machine gun "Utes."

Representatives of the Ossetian diaspora in Turkey, arrived in Tskhinval on a working visit, met with the rector of South-Ossetian State University. The delegation has included the Deputy Chairman of the Ossetian community in Turkey Jale Pukhaty and the owner of one of the central clinics in Istanbul Muzaffer Khuysaty with his wife. The guests were accompanied by Advisor to the Chairman of the Government of the Republic of North Ossetia- Alania Nelly Pukhaeva. Representatives of the Ossetian diaspora met with the rector of the university Vadim Tedeev. He thanked the guests for their attention to the problems of South Ossetian State University, as well as for the ongoing work on preservation and development of the Ossetian language among the Turkish ethnic Ossetians.
Tedeev has expressed confidence that the cooperation with the Turkish Ossetians, students will yield positive results in the development of friendly relations between the two countries.
"We will be glad to host students from Turkey, so that they could learn better the history of their ancestors, their culture and traditions, language. We can also conduct online conferences with members of the Ossetian diaspora, "- said the rector of the South Ossetian State University.
In turn, Jale Pukhaty reported on the activities of the Ossetian diaspora in Turkey. She has stressed that lately the ethnic Ossetians in Turkey have the opportunity to promote their language and culture of their ancestors.
" So it would be great if the young people, the students were able to communicate, to exchange experience. A lot of young people in Turkey are interested in Ossetian national dances, songs, and the Ossetian language, but we do not have specialists who could teach the young people ", - she said.
The meeting also discussed the possibility of holding a variety of joint activities.

South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov has made today an inspection tour of the village of Dmenis in Tskhinval district of South Ossetia. He was accompanied by the head of Tskhinval district Alan Pliev and the chief of the Control Department under the Presidential Administration Vladimir Tskhovrebov.
The President met with the residents of the village, asked what challenges they face in everyday life.