Archive - 16/6/2020

The climbing of alpinists of South Ossetia to the Nameless Peak is the first event in a series of memorable events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Ossetian people’s genocide, said Zhanna Zasseeva, Minister of Culture of South Ossetia.

According to her, all the climbing groups of South Ossetia expressed a desire to pass on three routes - from Dzimyr Khokh, the Kudar Gorge and the Ruck Pass, on which the people of South Ossetia were driven out in 1920.

On June 20, on the Memorial Day of the victims of the genocide of the people of South Ossetia, all state flags will be lowered in the Republic as a sign of mourning. This was reported by Minister of Culture Zhanna Zasseeva.

There are no new cases of coronavirus in South Ossetia during the day; in total, 36 people (38 a day earlier) are diagnosed with COVID-19, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy Head of the Committee for the Protection of Consumer Rights and Welfare of the population, told IA “Res” on Tuesday.

She has noted, that the day before one patient recovered from the coronavirus and was discharged from the hospital, another one was deregistered.

“Nine tests were conducted during the day, all of them are negative, in total about 2 thousand were conducted over the entire period,” Gagloeva noted.