Archive - 7/2019

The route Tskhinval - Vladikavkaz - Sukhum will run all year round.

South Ossetia and Abkhazia signed an agreement on international motor traffic. The document was signed between the State Administration of the Republic of Abkhazia for Transport and the Committee on Industry, Transport and Energy of the Republic of South Ossetia.

The event was attended by Ambassador of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Republic of Abkhazia Oleg Botsiev, Head of the Department of Strategic Cooperation Jemal Bganba.

Representatives of the all-Russian organization “Officers of Russia”, led by the head of the veteran organization in Yaroslavl, lieutenant colonel of the FSB reserve Viktor Vysotsky, visited Tskhinval, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reports.

The large-scale bilateral exercises with the participation of two combined-arms armies began in the Southern Military District (South-East Military District) against the background of the planned maneuvers of the member countries and partners of NATO in Georgia. This is stated in the district press service spread on Tuesday.

Murat Gassiev was awarded the "Star of Boxing" award for the fight with Cuban Junier Dorticos. The award ceremony took place on Monday within the framework of the International Boxing Day on Red Square in Moscow, reports TASS.

“I want to congratulate everyone on the International Boxing Day. This is a young holiday. But knowing that there are many people of different generations and different nationalities here, I can say with confidence that boxing unites,” said Alexei Rubezhnoy, Chairman of the supervisory board of the Russian Boxing Federation.

In the run-up to the centenary of the Ossetian genocide in the twenties of the last century, young people in South Ossetia launched a flash mob on social networks calling for recognition of the Ossetian genocide by Georgia.

Anna Kokoeva, a student at the South Ossetian State University`s Journalism Department, says that she supported the call, because she considers it important that the whole world know about those terrible events. In 2020, South Ossetia will mark the tragic date - the centenary of the genocide of the Ossetian people, committed by Georgia.

The Chairman of the government of South Ossetia, Eric Pukhaev, met with the Chairman of the State Committee for Information and Press, Maria Kotaeva, during which she familiarized herself with the results of the department’s work in the first half of 2019, the press service of the Premier reports.

As part of the celebration of the 130th anniversary of Boris Galati in the capitals of South and North Ossetia, an international scientific-practical forum "Problems of the traditional artistic culture of highland peoples" will be held.

The Forum started on Sunday, July 20, and will be held until July 26.

Heads of South Ossetia and Nicaragua Anatoly Bibilov and Daniel Ortega discussed the development of relations between the friendly countries, the establishment of mutually beneficial cooperation, the presidential press service reports.

The meeting of the President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, and President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, took place at the end of the visit to the Republic of the South Ossetian delegation.

The genocide of the Ossetian people never descended from the political agenda of South Ossetia, said the Sate Advisor to the President Konstantin Kochiev at a meeting of the South Ossetian parliamentary committee on national politics, culture, religion and the media.

According to him, the Parliament of the first convocation paid attention to this issue, later the VI Congress of the Ossetian people adopted a special resolution on the genocide of the Ossetian people, and last year they raised this issue at the 10th Congress, which also adopted a resolution.

President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, within the framework of his working visit to the Republic of Nicaragua, took part in the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, the press service of the head of state said.

Ceremonial events were held in the capital of Nicaragua, Managua.

Speaking at the rally, Anatoly Bibilov welcomed President Daniel Ortega and the people of Nicaragua on behalf of the fraternal South Ossetia.