Archive - 13/8/2022

The events of the military-technical Forum "Army-2022" with a demonstration of modern weapons of the Southern Military District will be held at the Russian military base in South Ossetia, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

"In total, on the territory of the Southern Military District, the Forum will be held at 16 sites of the Patriot military-patriotic parks of 9 regions of the Russian Federation on the territory of the Southern Military District and Russian military bases in Armenia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia," the press service said.

The war of August 2008 found Elbrus Kochiev at the outpost of the OMON of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia. He, along with his colleagues, was waiting for an order, which still did not come. Instead, there was a war. Elbrus remembered those few days from August 8 to 12 for the rest of his life, as he himself told IA “Res”.

At that time, Kochiev was working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the Department for the Protection of Public Order. He was the Deputy Head of the Department.