Representatives of the Ossetian diaspora in Latvia are visiting mass graves, where natives of the Republic who died during the Great Patriotic War are buried, reports "15th Region".
The activists have visited five places and honored the memory of seven fellow countrymen - representatives of the Sitokhovs, Mamsurovs, Gazdanovs, Gagloevs, Bagraevs, Doeevs and Gubiyevs.
Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev met with the head of the Official Representative Office of the Republic of South Ossetia in Transnistria, Vitaly Yankovsky.
Opening the meeting, the Minister stressed the very high dynamics of working contacts at various levels between Transnistria and South Ossetia, the press service of the Transdniestrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.
According to the press service of the government, it includes representatives of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the North Caucasus, the ministries of economic development and other interested departments of the South Ossetian and Russian parties – in all, 19 people.
President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, sent a telegram of condolences to the President of Sri Lanka Maitripala Siricenea in connection with a series of terrorist attacks in churches and hotels in the country.
The troupe of the South Ossetian State Drama Theater, named after Kosta Khetagurov, will go on Monday on tour to the Luhansk People's Republic and the Republic of Adygea.
As noted by Director of the Theater Madina Valieva, these days two theater festivals are starting, in which South Ossetia takes part.
This week, a delegation of the US Congress visited Georgia and held a meeting with the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Irakly Kobakhidze. After mutual assurances of the value of the US-Georgian relations, which, according to Kobakhidze, are “future-oriented,” the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament has concluded that a close strategic partnership between Georgia and the United States is based on a coincidence of the regional political interests.
The participants of the Intergovernmental Commission discussed the provision of Russian financial assistance to South Ossetia and the work on implementing the new Investment Program.
President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, opening the meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Socio-Economic Cooperation, noted the fruitful work of the South Ossetian and Russian parties in the implementation of the Investment Program.
South Ossetia is working to open its Trade House in Syria, Damascus is taking similar steps, said on Friday Samer Al-Khalil, Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade of the SAR, at the Yalta International Economic Forum.
The parties held a meeting on the margins of the Forum, which opened in Yalta on Thursday. The delegation of South Ossetia at the meeting was headed by President Anatoly Bibilov, who had previously announced the preparation of joint cooperation projects in the economic sphere with Syria.
The Russian government approved the conclusion of a cooperation agreement between the Crimea and South Ossetia, follows from the order published on the official portal of legal information.
"To agree with the proposal of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea to conclude an agreement between the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea and the Government of the Republic of South Ossetia on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation," the document says.
The 20th anniversary meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) on socio-economic cooperation between Russia and South Ossetia will be held on Friday in Tskhinval.
The Russian delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko are arriving at the meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission in Tskhinval; the delegation includes the head of the Ministry of the North Caucasus Affairs Sergey Chebotarev, the head of the Presidential Office for Cross-Border Cooperation. Alexey Filatov and others.