Archive - 2021

Sixteen prizes were taken by the South Ossetian athletes in all-style karate and hand-to-hand fighting at the X All-Russian cultural and sports festival "Peaceful Caucasus 2021".

The sporting event took place in Vladikavkaz.

In all-style karate, the winners of the competition were Andrey Tomaev, Elizaveta Alborova, Arsen Dzhioev and Mikhail Parastaev. Silver medals were taken by Alexei Chebotarev, David Kotaev, Atsamaz Bestaev, Marat Tedeev, Dmitry Guzitaev, Erik Siukaev, Shamil Bekoev and Arsen Laliev, and the bronze - by Renat Pukhaev.

Over the past nine months since the beginning of the year, 296 violators of legislation in the border sphere were detained at various sections of the state border of South Ossetia (for the nine months of 2020 - 360).

According to the press service of the KGB of the Republic, of them 115 (157 in 2020) are violators of the state border regime, 181 (203 in 2020) are border regime violators.

"The Border Service of the State Security Committee conducted investigations for each violation of legal regimes.

At the next round of Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia, South Ossetian representatives still intend to seek concrete progress in working out a document on the non-use of force by Georgia against South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the discussions, State Adviser to the President of the Republic Konstantin Kochiev told the “Res” news agency.

South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee conducted tests studies fot coronavirus infection on Saturday, of which 80 new cases of coronavirus were detected (100 new cases the day before), the head of the department Marina Kochieva told the "Res» news agency on Sunday.

"Currently, 1,377 people are under the supervision of doctors, 40 people have been removed from the register of doctors," said the head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee.

The number of people infected since the beginning of the pandemic -6807, 5430 have recovered.

In the capital of South Ossetia, an autumn harvest festival was held on Saturday, organized by the Ironsaen winery, the Association of Winemakers and Winegrowers with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic.

Familiarity with the wine inventory and the culture of using the best brands of South Ossetian red and white, starting from light dry wines, increasing to fortified and dessert ones, has traditionally become a shtick of the holiday.

Singer from South Ossetia Leila Margieva became the winner of the international vocal competition "Star Trek" in the city of Sochi.

As noted by Margieva in her interview with the IA “Res”, more than 80 vocalists from various regions of Russia and abroad took part in the competition.

South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee has conducted 345 tests on coronavirus infection, of which 89 new cases of coronavirus have been detected, the head of the department Marina Kochieva told the "Res" news agency on Thursday.

"Currently, 1201 people are under the supervision of doctors. 30 citizens have been removed from the medical register in a day," said the head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee.

Servicemen of the Defense Ministry of South Ossetia will take part in the command-staff mobilization exercises, which will be held in Abkhazia from 19 to 20 October.

According to the official website of the Defense Ministry, the Defense Minister Ibrahim Gasseev received an invitation to take part in the joint exercises from his Abkhaz counterpart Vladimir Anua.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia on Wednesday issued a statement in connection with the international command and staff exercises "Eternity-2021" in Georgia.

"On October 4-8, regular military exercises are being held in Georgia, this time the command-staff" Eternity-2021 ", with the participation of 200 military personnel from Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The purpose of the exercises is to organize the protection of regional economic projects.

The South Ossetian State Drama Theater took part in the international festival of national theaters, being held in Makhachkala from September 28 to October 5.

As noted by the artistic director of the theater Tamerlan Dzudtsov in his interview with IA

"Res, " the performance of the South Ossetian troupe was the last one at the festival.