Archive - 9/8/2025

A prayer service was held in the Cathedral of the city of Sukhum in memory of those killed during the war of August 2008.

The event was attended by representatives of the Abkhazian leadership, the Russian Ambassador to Abkhazia Mikhail Shurgalin, the South Ossetian Ambassador to Abkhazia Oleg Botsiev, director Tamerlan Dzudtsov, who is working on a production in the Abkhazian Theater, deputies, and the public.

In 2008, South Ossetia was shelled by the Georgian troops. On August 8, a five-day war was unleashed.

Deputy Chairman of the Government of South Ossetia - Minister of Finance Dzambolat Tadtaev discussed cooperation issues with the Russian Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut.

The meeting was held at the platform of the 12th open plowing championship in St. Petersburg.

The joint meeting was also attended by Speaker of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia Lasha Ashuba.

The championship started on August 8, its goal is to improve the culture of farming, develop modern technologies, and popularize agricultural professions.

The event dedicated to the 17th anniversary of the Georgian aggression against people of South Ossetia was held in Tiraspol, the Novosti Pridnestrovya news agency reports.

The memory of the defenders and civilians perished in August 2008 was honored near the official representative office of South Ossetia in Tiraspol.

The event was attended by the head of the official representative office of the RSO in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Vitaly Yankovsky.

Cooperation between Russia and South Ossetia in the defense, scientific, economic, cultural and educational spheres, as well as the deployment of units of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of the Republic is a guarantor of lasting peace and stability for the country. This opinion was expressed in the interview with TASS by Ambassador of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation Znaur Gassiev.