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August 2008 Five days of war. 11 years later. Journalists are telling about the war in South Ossetia

Ashraf El Sabbah, Russian publicist, journalist and translator:

Despite the fact that 11 years have passed since the criminal events of the Saakashvili regime, I remember August 8, 2008 very vividly, since we flew from Moscow to Tbilisi at the nighton August 7 t- 8 and saw almost everything with our own eyes from the first minutes.

South Ossetia, which has previously applied to the State Duma of the Russian Federation with a request to recognize the genocide of the Ossetian people in 1920, will make the same appeals to the other countries that recognized it, as well as to the EU and the UN, said President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov.

South Ossetia has already taken counter steps in relation to Georgia, now it’s its turn, said President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov.

Earlier, he has voiced the conditions for peaceful coexistence with Georgia - a recognition of the 1920 genocide, the signing of a memorandum on the non-use of force and recognition of the independence of South Ossetia.

A group of South Ossetian schoolchildren will go to Nicaragua for the first time, which was one of the first to recognize the independence of South Ossetia. This was reported to TASS by the President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov.

"We agreed to send our schoolchildren to Nicaragua so that they could get to know this country, its culture, see the sights with their own eyes," the President said and specified that the winners of the Republican school Olympiads will go there.

August 2008. Five days of the war. 11 years later. Russian journalists are telling about the war in South Ossetia

Each viewer of the Rossiya and TVC television channels knows his face in a helmet with the inscription “press”, his reports are almost always saturated with gunpowder and blood. Evgeny Poddubny, a military journalist:

August 8, 2008 is a day of endless tragedies and quiet hope. Every 10 minutes, my friends and I learned that one of our close friends had died or, on the contrary, had survived.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov told a foreign journalist a joke illustrating the US habit of interfering in the internal affairs of other states.

South Ossetia is negotiating the recognition of the republic with a number of states. In the near future, recognition can be expected from several UN member states, said President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.

“Negotiations are ongoing with many countries, and it’s no secret that Russian colleagues provide great support. I think that we will see not one, but several recognitions from the states -members of the UN,” the President told reporters.

The head of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said that he had invited President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega to visit the Republic in 2020.

"I invited the President of Nicaragua, there is an invitation. President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega accepted this invitation, we hope and tentatively agreed that this could be next year," Anatoly Bibilov told reporters.

According to him, during a recent visit to this country, representatives of the leadership of South Ossetia and Nicaragua "agreed that we will develop our relations both in the cultural sphere and economic spheres."

Ninety-five percent of South Ossetian citizens have Russian passports, said South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov.

" 95 percent of South Ossetians are citizens of the Russian Federation. It is not only right, it is necessary," Bibilov told reporters.

He has reminded that, with Russian passports, residents of South Ossetia can solve their pressing problems, get an education, travel around the world. In addition, having Russian passports "suggests that Ossetians have always considered Russia their historical homeland," the President said.

The politician is sure that the Republic should restore historical justice

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said that the Republic should be part of Russia and the Ossetian people should be united.