Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov congratulated the Chairman of the Presidium of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik on his birthday, the press service of the head of state reports.

The congratulatory message, in particular, reads: "Your personal qualities, devotion to the Fatherland, dedication, courage and faith in your people have allowed you to achieve impressive success in high government posts and earn the unshakable authority and respect of all the people of the Republika Srpska.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov appointed on Friday by his decree Gennady Bekoev the Prime Minister of the Republic.

"In accordance with paragraph 5 of Article 50 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Ossetia, appoint Gennady Borisovich Bekoev Chairman of the Government of the Republic of South Ossetia," the decree of the head of state says.

This Decree comes into force from the date of its signing.

As part of the joint operational search activities by the State Security Committee of South Ossetia in cooperation with the Border Administration of the FSB of Russia in the Republic, on March 7, ammunition was found in a non-residential building on the northwestern outskirts of Tskhinval, the KGB press service reported on Friday.

Film festival “Ural-Caucasus: connecting threads. Ossetian Parallels ", organized by the Sverdlovsk regional public organization" Ossetian Culture Society named after Aslan-Girey Galati "was held on February 10, in the capital of the Urals, Yekaterinburg. "Res" was informed about this by the Chairman of the Galati Society Liana Gagloity.

The number of detected cases of COVID-19 in South Ossetia over the past day increased by ten, 106 tests were carried out, South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee reported on Thursday.

"Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic, 3131 cases have been detected, 2645 citizens have recovered, 17 people have been removed from the register in a day," Anna Gagloeva, Deputy Head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA “Res” .

She noted that 486 coronavirus infected remained under medical supervision.

South Ossetia is expecting the arrival of the Yevgeny Vakhtangov Russian State Academic Theater, director of the Kosta Khetagurov South Ossetian State Drama Theaterб Madina Valieva, who is getting acquainted with the work of the renowned theater as part of a trip to Moscow, told IA "Res".

The Parliament of South Ossetia intends to ratify agreements on the mutual recognition of the length of service of military personnel and on the mutual recognition of the disability of persons dismissed from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the next session

The detection rate of patients with coronavirus in South Ossetia in early March varies from 12 to 22 percent, the head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee Marina Kochieva told the “Res” news agency.

“The percentage is not low; we have to understand that. COVID-19, of course, will not disappear, most likely it will subsequently turn into seasonal incidence. But today we recommend that the population adhere to all preventive measures, observe the rules of hygiene, mask regime, disinfection regime, refrain from visiting crowded places,” Kochieva said.

The Tbilisi regime continues through the channels of family and friendship ties to provoke the citizens of South Ossetia to illegally cross the state border in order to carry out vaccinations on the territory of Georgia, reports the State Security Committee of South Ossetia, citing the Georgian NGOs.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko discussed with representatives of the EU, UN and OSCE the situation on the border of South Ossetia and Georgia, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.

The consultations in Moscow were attended by the co-chairs of the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia – the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Toivo Klaar, the UN Representative Cihan Sultanoglu and Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for the South Caucasus Annika Söder.