Archive - 3/2019

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov met with the Vice-President of the Skolkovo Foundation, Alexander Chernov, the press service of the head of state reports.

Anatoly Bibilov expressed hope for the elaboration of issues related to various projects and the participation of South Ossetia in them.

“I hope you will have the opportunity to assess the potential of South Ossetia and to some extent work through the issues related to various projects of Skolkovo.” For my part, I can assure you of all-round support,” said the President.

Deputies on Thursday ratified an Agreementon friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between South Ossetia and the Lugansk People’s Republic.

The draft law was submitted to parliamentarians by Alexander Pliev, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and Inter-Parliamentary Activity.

He has noted that the agreement was signed by the President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov and the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik on December 29, 2018 in the framework of the first official visit of the head of the LPR to South Ossetia.

On March 18, multinational NATO-Georgia Exercise 2019 command and staff exercises began in Georgia, in which are taking part about 350 soldiers from 24 NATO member countries and partners, including the United States. The NATO-Georgia Exercise 2019 exercise will be the second multinational exercise in Georgia to be held as part of the country's cooperation package with NATO, adopted at the 2014 Wales summit.

Five drones at the same time crossed the border of South Ossetia from Georgia and flew to the city of Kvaisa, the head of the South Ossetian delegation Yegor Kochiev told reporters after the official part of the meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM).

The South Ossetian party once again raised at the meeting in the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) the issue of NATO exercises in Georgia. This was reported to journalists by the head of the South Ossetian delegation in the format of the IPRM, Yegor Kochiev.

Another provocation by Georgia took place near the village of Khurvaleti, said the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the meetings in the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM), Egor Kochiev.

According to him, thanks to the clear actions of the South Ossetian and Georgian law enforcement agencies, with the mediation of the European Union Monitoring Mission, the matter did not reach a serious incident.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation Znaur Gassiev on behalf of President Anatoly Bibilov delivered a welcoming speech at the international conference “Crimea in Modern Geopolitics - 5th Anniversary of the Crimean Spring,” the press service of the South Ossetia Embassy in Russia reports.

Families of the missing South Ossetian citizens do not intend to speculate on the remains of the Georgian citizens, and they hope that Georgia will respond by indicating the location of our missing citizens, told reporters Lidiya Kudzieva, the Chairman of the public organization“Memory and Hope“.

She has noted that in 2017, in the area of ​​the village of Tamarasheni, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) together with the South Ossetian side exhumed the remains of the citizens buried there who had been lost during the war in August 2008.

On March 18, South Ossetia is commemorating the 28th anniversary of the memory of the victims of the Ered tragedy, one of the worst and most inhuman events in the history of mankind, when Georgian gangs seized a truck with civilians and, after tortures and abuses, they were buried alive in one grave near the village of Ered, - said Speaker of the RSO Peter Gassiev in his address to the citizens of the Republic.

The delegation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People's Republic, which arrived in Tskhinval, discussed with the South Ossetian colleagues plans for further cooperation. According to the press service of the emergency department of the Republic of South Ossetia, the meeting discussed the provision on the creation of a joint commission to implement the signed intergovernmental agreement between the Emergencies Ministry of the two republics "On cooperation in the field of emergency prevention and response."