Archive - 2019

President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, sent a telegram of condolences to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in connection with the death of submariners in the Barents Sea, the press service of the head of state reports.

"With a feeling of deep sorrow, I took the news of the terrible tragedy on the nuclear submarine AS-12 in the Barents Sea, which killed 14 officers of the Northern Fleet.

The events of June 20-21 in Tbilisi complicated the course of the Geneva discussions on Transcaucasia, making them more nervous, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said on Wednesday after another round of discussions.

Russia considers theses about the accelerated admission of Georgia to NATO dangerous, said Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin on Wednesday after another round of Geneva discussions on Transcaucasia.

"A separate topic we, together with our partners from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, highlighted the themes of the growing activity of the US and NATO in the South Caucasus region; numerous, rather large-scale multinational exercises of this military-political bloc," said Karasin.

Fourteen submariners of the Navy died in a fire at a deep-sea research facility.

Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev sent a note of condolences to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov in connection with the tragedy in the Barents Sea.

The leaders of the international social movement "Ossetes Higher Council" - the Chairman Ruslan Kuchiev and his Deputy Vyacheslav Dzagoev - are in South Ossetia.

On July 3, they met with President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov. The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the South Ossetian Council "High Ossetian Council" Robert Gagloyty.

The first Deputy head of the administration of the President of South Ossetia, Alan Dzhussoev, in an interview with the Res news agency, gave an assessment of the anti-Russian campaign in the Georgian media and spoke in general about his vision of the situation in this country.

First of all, how do you assess the very fact of such riots and the synchronous anti-Russian campaign in the Georgian media?

South Ossetia’s Parliament Speaker Alan Tadtaev at the II International Forum “Development. Of Parliamentarism” spoke at the round table with the report “International humanitarian law and humanitarian cooperation: the role of parliaments and inter-parliamentary institutions”.

According to the press service of the legislative body, the Speaker outlined the importance of the existence of a universal concept of intergovernmental cooperation in the humanitarian field, in particular, in the field of protecting life and dignity in situations of crisis and armed conflict.

A group of young people from South Ossetia is taking part in the All-Russian Youth Educational Forum "Tavrida" 2019 on the Crimea peninsula. The press service of the Сommittee on Youth Policy, Sport and Tourism of the Republic informs.

The Geneva security meetings in the South Caucasus are devoted exclusively to the relations of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Georgia

Representatives of Russia and Georgia can discuss bilateral relations between the countries on the sidelines of the Geneva Security Discussion in the South Caucasus, which will take place on July 2-3, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin.

On July 24, the delegation of South Ossetia will go to Abkhazia on a working visit.

An agreement on international motor traffic will be concluded between the governments of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia. The press service of the RA State Administration for Transport reports.

The report notes that for the Abkhaz part the document will be signed by the head of the State Transport Directorate, Rovestan Gabliya, for the part of South Ossetia by the Chairman of the Industry, Energy and Transport Committee Batradz Sanakoev.