Archive - 20/6/2024

President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev laid flowers and wreaths at the monument to the 13 Communards at the Zguder cemetery.

South Ossetia on Thursday is remembering the victims of the 1920 genocide.

The funeral ceremony was also attended by the Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov, Prime Minister Konstantin Dzhussoev, Speaker of Parliament Alan Alborov, heads of the ministries and departments, deputies of the legislative body, the public of the Republic, and students.

Not only military personnel of the Georgian army and leaders of the Georgian state, but also the Georgian population of adjacent territories, resettled by the Georgian authorities to the Ossetian land, took an active part in the genocide and devastation of South Ossetia in the 20s of the last century. This is stated in the statement by President Alan Gagloev in connection with the 104th anniversary of the Ossetian genocide.

June 20, 1920 is a sad date in the history of South Ossetia and the entire Ossetian people.

The head of the official representation of South Ossetia in Transnistria, Vitaly Yankovsky, took part in the mourning memorial events dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the beginning of the aggression of the Republic of Moldova against the Pridnestrovian people, the press service of the representation reports.