Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

South Ossetia commemorated those killed eleven years ago

On the stairs of the Parliament building of South Ossetia eleven years ago, immediately after the repulse of the Georgian troops, the great maestro Valery Gergiev held a requiem concert. Candles were burning on the steps in memory of the victims, and the schoolchildren were holding the photographs of the victims of Georgian aggressors. Since then, these stairs are called the Gergiev stairs ...

South Ossetia has recognized as a genocide not only the events of 1920, as has already been done, but also the events of 2008, the President of the Republic, Anatoly Bibilov, said.

In 2007, the South Ossetian Parliament decided to recognize the events of 1920 as genocide, when the Menshevik army of Georgia had invaded. According to the Parliament, about 5300 people were killed and killed while fleeing through the mountains, which amounted to 6-8% of the total population of South Ossetia.

The conditions for normalizing relations with Georgia are its recognition of the genocide of the Ossetian people and the independence of South Ossetia, said President Anatoly Bibilov.

Sooner or later, the time will come when Saakashvili and those responsible for starting a war against South Ossetia will be punished

Criminal cases against former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and his associates for crimes committed against the South Ossetian people have no statute of limitations, said President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.

He has reminded that in 2008, investigative bodies of the Republic initiated proceedings against the top leadership of Georgia, which unleashed a war against South Ossetia.

Belgian journalist Mush Benoit intends to shoot a documentary about South Ossetia. The Belgian, who came to the press tour as part of a delegation of journalists, spoke about this at a briefing in Tskhinval.

“We have already visited Donetsk and would like to see what the situation is in South Ossetia, what kind of relations the Republic has with other states after the military actions in 2008,” he said.

According to Benoit, after his first visit to South Ossetia, he wrote a report in which he described in detail all the hostilities in South Ossetia.

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.