Archive - 2/2020

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov received a delegation of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Abkhazia led by First Deputy Minister of Defense of Abkhazia Beslan Tsvizhba. According to the press service of the President, representatives of the defense department of Abkhazia arrived in Tskhinval to participate in celebrations dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day.

The meeting was also attended by Minister of Defense of South Ossetia Ibrahim Gasseev and Ambassador Extraordinary of the Republic of Abkhazia to South Ossetia Alan Elbakiev.

The famous Ossetian boxer Murat Gassiev postponed his debut fight in the USA. This, according to the newspaper "Slovo", on his page said an insider from ESPN Steve Kim.

“I have been told that Murat Gassiev will not perform on February 29th in a boxing evening card in Frisco, Texas. He had some problems finding sparring partners, so he had to postpone his heavyweight debut again,” Kim wrote.

The Donetsk People’s Republic will host an international boxing tournament dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the creation of the Donetsk Golden Gloves boxing sports club. South Ossetian athletes will also take part in the competition. As the Deputy Director of the boxing school Irbeg Kokoev has noted in a commentary to the Res agency, five boxers will go to the competition.

The head of the Lugansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik held a working meeting with the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov who arrived in Lugansk, reports LuganskInformCentre.

“We are pleased to welcome you to our land. Very warm and friendly relations have developed between our republics,” Pasechnik addressed the leader of South Ossetia.

In turn, Bibilov noted that he had arrived on a working visit to his good friend. -head of the LPR,

A rally dedicated to the 31st anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan was held in Tskhinval in front of a monument to internationalist soldiers in the Bam microdistrict. Participants in the event laid flowers and wreaths at the memorial, honoring the memory of the Afghans who did not return from the battlefield.

Murat Guchmazov, a Chairman of the Union of Afghanistan Veterans, noted that "the Afghan war lasted for almost 10 years, through which more than 620 thousand soldiers and officers went through, of which 15 thousand did not return home."

On February 14, 1992, a special police detachment was created in the war-torn South Ossetia. To be more precise, the detachment began to be formed several months before the date that entered the history of the Ossetian statehood. At that time, the entire law enforcement system in South Ossetia was in a difficult situation: the militia began to be disarmed, starting in 1991. The Soviet Union still existed, a system of linear subordination of bodies "union center - republican - autonomous region - city" was built with an unshakable rule of subordination to orders.

South Ossetia signed the first contract with Kazakhstan for the supply of wine at the largest international food exhibition "Prodexpo-2020" in Moscow, said on Thursday the head of the South Ossetian wine enterprise "Ironsaen Winery" Alexey Tsapaev.

The information received by the State Security Committee of South Ossetia indicates that official Tbilisi, despite the growth of protest moods in Georgia itself, continues to implement a revanchist policy aimed at destabilizing the situation on the state border of South Ossetia with Georgia, the KGB press service reports.

One can expect provocations from the Georgian authorities at the meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which will be held in Tbilisi on May 14-15, Director of the Department of pan-European cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry Nikolai Kobrinets said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Ex- world champion in first heavyweight title, 26-year-old Russian Murat Gassiev will hold his debut heavyweight title fight on February 29 in Frisco, USA at Matchroom Boxing's big boxing evening, which on Monday officially announced his entry into the ring, according to allboxing. ru. Murat Gassiev will interrupt his one and a half year lay-off, due to shoulder injuries, in a ten-round duel against 31-year-old American Jerry Foster.

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