A great friend of South Ossetia and the Ossetian people, the great Soviet and Russian actor and ardent patriot Vasily Semyonovich Lanovoy, has passes away. People's Artist of the USSR Vasily Lanovoy was a model of civic courage.
In South Ossetia, both old and young pay tribute to the magnificent images he created in the immortal cinema. More touchingly, the actor himself had warm feelings for South Ossetia.
The State Security Committee of South Ossetia has informed that during 2020, 423 offenders were detained by the border authorities of the Republic and Russia at various sections of the RSO State Border, the press service of the department reports.
"Of these, 184 - for an attempt to illegally cross the State Border, 227 - for illegal stay in the border zone, 12 - for disobeying the legal requirements of officers of the Border Service of the RSO KGB and the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia in South Ossetia," the Committee said.
President Anatoly Bibilov took part in the reporting meeting of the board of the Foreign Intelligence Service of South Ossetia. According to the press service of the head of state, the meeting summed up the results of the Foreign Intelligence Service for the past year, and identified the priority tasks and areas of work for the current year.
Over the past day, 168 people have been tested for coronavirus infection in the PCR laboratory of South Ossetia, 11 of them showed a positive result, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA "Res" on Thursday.
“During the pandemic, 15427 studies were carried out in the PCR laboratory of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, Gagloeva said.
According to her, 784 people remain under medical supervision.
The number of cases in the republic since mid-September has reached 2766.
Ambassador of South Ossetia to Russia Znaur Gassiev took part in the solemn and mourning ceremony on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade during the Great Patriotic War. According to the press service of the Embassy, the ceremony took place in St. Petersburg on January 27.
Servicemen of the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia are planning to take part in seven competitions, which are included in the program of the International Army Games, said State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic Vadim Siukaev at the press conference "ARMI-2021: South Ossetia is ready to participate and win" at the press conference held in Tskhinval on Wednesday,
A videoconference was held between the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia for Post-Conflict Settlement Murat Dzhioev with the co-chair of the Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia, the representative of the Swedish OSCE Chairmanship, Annika Söder.
The head of the Rossotrudnichestvo office in South Ossetia, Sergei Skvortsov, and the head of the organization of Russian compatriots in the Republic, Svetlana Kotaeva, spoke at a press conference in Tskhinval about the organization's work plans for 2021.
According to Skvortsov, Rossotrudnichestvo intends to move away from the patterns of Soviet times, when "Russia's humanitarian aid to other countries was not advertised."
The daily increase in new cases of coronavirus infection in South Ossetia was 6 cases, this is the minimum since October last year, when there was an epidemiological increase in the incidence.
"Over the past 24 hours, there are 6 confirmed cases of new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in the Republic, 67 people have been tested. The total number of coronavirus cases increased to 2,746," Anna Gagloeva, Deputy head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA "Res" on Tuesday.
The escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh has made security issues of particular relevance for South Ossetia. This was announced on Monday by Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Dmitry Medoev in talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
