Archive - 21/1/2021

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia announced another fact of a defector from Georgia.

"Recently, the State Security Committee has recorded numerous attempts to illegally cross the border with subsequent appeals of the violators to the authorities. So, on December 28, 2020, in the vicinity of the village of Akhmadz, Leningor district, the border authorities of the Republic detained a citizen of Georgia Beka Akakievich Parchukashvili, born in 1993, a resident of Tbilisi, "the press service of the Committee reports.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will discuss coordination in the international arena with Acting Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev on January 25 in Moscow. This was announced on Thursday at a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

President Anatoly Bibilov met with a Commander of the 58th Army, Major General Mikhail Zusko, the press service of the head of state reports.

The President has noted that interaction between the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is expanding both at the level of interaction with the 58th Army, and directly on the territory of South Ossetia with the 4th military base of the Russian Federation.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) declared unfounded the accusations of Georgia against Russia in connection with the events of August 2008 in South Ossetia, the press service of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation reported.

It is noted that on January 21 the decision of the ECHR Grand Chamber on the interstate complaint "Georgia v Russia (II)" was published, the subject of which is the events of August 2008 in South Ossetia and their consequences.

In South Ossetia over the past day, 132 people have been tested, 20 tests showed a positive result, the head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, Marina Kochieva , told IA "Res" on Thursday.

"The number of cases in the Republic has grown to 2,672. 943 people remain under the supervision of doctors in hospitals and outpatients."

During the pandemic, 14709 studies were carried out in the PCR laboratory of South Ossetian Consumer Rights Protection.

A working meeting of the Acting Defense Minister Ibragim Gasseev with the commanders of military units that took part in repelling external military aggression was held at the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia. According to the press service of the defense ministry, the meeting was also attended by the Deputy Minister of Defense for work with the personnel of the guard, Colonel Akhsar Gassiev.

The meeting was attended by the commanders of rifle battalions and other military units that performed combat and other tasks in 2004-2008.