Archive - 2/2021

The number of coronavirus cases in South Ossetia has increased by 16 over the past day and reached 2,917, Marina Kochieva, head of the Republic's Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA "Res".

" 16 residents of the Republic have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in a day, a total of 169 have been tested for coronavirus, 17 people were removed from the register on Wednesday," Kochieva said. According to her, 833 people in the republic with coronavirus infection are currently under the supervision of doctors.

Ambassador of South Ossetia in Russia Znaur Gassiev met in Moscow with the Vice-Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Ivan Prostakov.

As the press service of the Embassy has informed IA "Res", during the meeting they discussed the prospects of interaction, concerning, in particular, the training of citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia in this educational institution, as well as possible cooperation with the South Ossetian State University.

The Gakheladze case is used as another pretext for repeating propaganda and deliberately false attacks, said Murat Dzhioev, the Plenipotentiary of the South Ossetian President for post-conflict settlement.

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia announced an aerial reconnaissance of the American Global Hawk RQ-4B drone near the southern borders of the Republic and Russia.

The book of the head of the representative office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Krasnodar, Candidate of History Sergey Manko, dedicated to the history of the development and formation of the Republic of South Ossetia, where he was in the diplomatic service, was published on the eve of the Day of the Diplomat, the representative office reports.

From 2017 to 2019 Sergey Manko was working as an Adviser to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of South Ossetia.

In January, 13 violators of legislation in the border area were detained at various sections of the state border of South Ossetia (in December — 28), the press service of the KGB of the republic reports.

“Of the 13 detainees, eight were violators of the state border regime, and five were violators of the frontier regime. The border service of the State Security Committee of South Ossetia conducted proceedings on each fact of violation of legal regimes,” the KGB said.

The issues of bilateral cooperation between the ministries of agriculture of Russia and South Ossetia were discussed on Saturday by Acting Prime Minister Gennady Bekoev with Director of the Department of Crop Production, Mechanization, Chemicalization and Plant Protection of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Roman Nekrasov and President of the Association of Peasant (Farming) Farms and Agricultural Cooperatives of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Igor Kadzaev.

Russian lawmakers are satisfied with the resumption of inter-parliamentary cooperation with colleagues from South Ossetia, said the head of the international committee of the Federation Council, head of the Russian delegation Konstantin Kosachev.

"Since the beginning of the pandemic, inter-parliamentary contacts have been suspended, but since autumn they have begun to recover, except for the South Ossetian Parliament," the senator said on Friday on the Russia 24 TV channel.

The Russian delegation visited Tskhinval on Friday.

In one of the abandoned houses of the village of Khvtse, Dzau district of South Ossetia, eyewitnesses found ammunition, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia reports. In particular, cartridges of calibers 7.62 - 820 pieces and 5.45 - 543 pieces, as well as two F-1 grenades and two fuses were discovered.

For the fruitful development of South Ossetia, all institutions of power must be involved, said the head of the Russian delegation Konstantin Kosachev at the working meeting of the Russian parliamentary delegation with deputies of the legislative body of South Ossetia.

As noted by Kosachev, Russia is interested in the stable socio-economic development of South Ossetia.