Archive - 6/2024

The delegation of South Ossetia will take part in the events dedicated to the Day of National Remembrance of the victims of the Great Patriotic War and the genocide of the Belarusian people in Brest, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.

“On the night of June 22, at the memorial complex “Brest Hero Fortress” there will be a performance by the chamber orchestra of the Brest Regional Philharmonic “Music of Memory”, then a rally-requiem “In memory of the fallen - be worthy!”, – ceremony of laying flowers at the Eternal Flame.

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.

Commemorative events dedicated to the 104th anniversary of the genocide of the Ossetian people will be held in South Ossetia on June 20.

As reported to IA “Res” by the Republican Commission for the preparation and holding of state-significant events, a flower-laying ceremony will take place at the monument to the 13 communards at the Zguder cemetery at 10.00.

They noted that a national minute of silence at 13.00 would honor the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Ossetian people.

Azamat Zasseev from South Ossetia took second place in freestyle wrestling at the BRICS games, the press service of the Committee on Youth Policy and Sports reports.

“Our athletes, Alan Zasseev (weight class 86 kg) and Azamat Dzhioev (weight class 79 kg), also took bronze in the competition,” the Committee has noted.

The BRICS Games are taking place in Kazan from June 11 to 24. Athletes from South Ossetia are competing in 5 types of sport. The Republic's delegation of 34 people is headed by Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Youth Policy and Sports Soslan Gassiev.

The Bendery tragedy united the people of Transnistria even more strongly in a decisive struggle for freedom and independence, protection of their future, their history, culture and language. This is stated in the note of condolences of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia to the foreign policy department of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in connection with the 32nd anniversary of the Bendery tragedy.

The South Ossetian Foreign Ministry has noted that June 19, 1992 is one of the most terrible dates in the history of Transnistria.

Ministry of Economic Development of South Ossetia will present a stand at the Caucasus Investment Forum in the Chechen Republic.

According to the press service of the Ministry, the event will take place on July 15-17.

“The South Ossetian entrepreneurs can also exhibit their products at the Forum. Those wishing to take part in the event can contact Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic,” the press service has noted.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia made their sovereign choice back in 2008, after the regime of Mikheil Saakashvili tried to forcefully return one of these republics to Georgia and threatened the other with similar actions, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin noted in the interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, commenting on the statement of the Georgian Prime Minister I. Kobakhidze that his government “intends to return Abkhazia and the Tskhinval region to the country.”

Within the framework of the Days of the Ossetian Culture in Europe,the exhibition of the Ossetian artists has ended in Luxembourg. The representative of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry in the Benelux countries, Chairman of the International Non-Profit Association “Renaissance”, Radion Pukhaev, told IA “Res”.

According to him, the works of the Ossetian artists aroused great interest among the visitors.

“A certain stage of the Days of the Ossetian Culture in Europe has ended,” Pukhaev said. “We are planning to hold larger events in the fall,” Pukhaev said.