Archive - 23/8/2023

Representatives of South Ossetia have taken part in the VI Global Forum of Young Diplomats "Diplomacy of the New Multipolar World" in Kazan, which was taking place from 17 to 21 August.

According to the press service of the Foreign Ministry, the South Ossetian delegation was represented by employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - the head of the department for work with foreign institutions Alexei Sanakoev, the consultant of the department of foreign relations Juliet Babutsidze and the first secretary of the South Ossetian Embassy in the Russian Federation Soslan Margiev.

The authorities of South Ossetia expelled from the Republic two citizens of Georgia who had illegally violated the regime of the state border, the State Security Committee of the Republic of South Ossetia reports on Wednesday.

The KGB reported that residents of the village of Akhalubani, Gori Municipality of Georgia, Psitidze Tamaz Iraklievich, born in 1958, and Petriashvili Zurab Shalvovich, born in 1991, had been detained by officers of the South Ossetian border authorities on August 21 in the vicinity of the village of Adzysar in the Tskhinval district of South Ossetia.

Russia's recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2008 was in line with the will of the peoples of these countries, the UN Charter, and consolidated historical justice, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, said in the article published on the aif.ru website on the occasion of the anniversary of those events.

Deputy Head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has admitted that the idea of joining Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Russia can be implemented if the West continues to aggravate the situation in Georgia. He has written about this in his article published on the website aif.ru.