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In South Ossetia, the national minute of silence on Tuesday, at 13.00, honored the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Ossetian people.

In Tskhinval, cars and public transport stopped for a minute, state flags on administrative buildings were visited.

The whole Republic is remembering on Tuesday the victims of the tragic events for the Ossetian people at the beginning of the 20th century.

On Monday, Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Akhsar Dzhioev sent a note to his Pridnestrovian counterpart Vitaly Ignatiev with words of sympathy and support in connection with the 31st anniversary of the Bendery tragedy, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reports.

“The tragic events that unfolded on June 19, 1992 in the city of Bendery are forever inscribed in the history of Pridnestrovye as an act of war crime that claimed hundreds of human lives and crippled thousands of destinies.

Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Alan Alborov received Deputy of the Parliament of Abkhazia, Chairman of the "Remember" Charitable Foundation Leonid Lakerbaya and Deputy Chairman of the "Remember" Charitable Foundation Lyalya Chamagua, the press service of the legislative body reports.

The meeting was attended by Vice-Speaker of the South Ossetian legislative body Alexander Pliev and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on National Policy, Culture, Religion and Media Amiran Dyakonov.

On June 20, on the stage of the State Drama Theater of South Ossetia, a large-scale performance "Faestag Aevdisaen" ("The Last Witness") based on the play by Alan Ostaev, staged by Tamerlan Dzudtsev, will be shown, the press service of the theater reports.

President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev met with Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Yevgeny Kuyvashev, the press service of the head of state reports.

The meeting was held within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Evgeny Kuyvashev noted the significance of the Agreement signed with South Ossetia in May this year.

The Ossetian and Abkhazian representatives have repeatedly stated that the politicization of the refugee problem by Georgia undermines the work on this issue in the framework of the Geneva discussions, according to the comments of the South Ossetian delegation in the Geneva international discussions in connection with the adoption by the UN General Assembly of a resolution on the situation of internally displaced persons and refugees from South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The delegation of the Parliament of South Ossetia, headed by First Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Body Peter Gassiev, met with the Chairman of the "Fair Russia-For Truth" party, the head of the faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Sergei Mironov.

According to the press service of the Parliament of South Ossetia, the delegation of South Ossetia has also included Deputy Speakers of the Parliament Alexander Pliev and Vladimir Kelekhsaev, MP Alan Tadtaev.

President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev met with Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Vitaly Savelyev, the press service of the head of state reports.

The meeting took place within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The main issue of the discussion was the reconstruction of the Lower Zaramag checkpoint, which is scheduled for 2023-2024.

In St. Petersburg, on the sidelines of the 26th International Economic Forum, negotiations were held between the delegations of South Ossetia and the Republic of Crimea.

According to the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of South Ossetia, the parties also signed a Plan for the implementation of the Agreement between the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea and the government of South Ossetia on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation for 2023-2025.

In May, 49 violators were detained at various sections of the state border of South Ossetia. Of these, ten violated the regime of the state border, and 39 violated the border regime, the press service of the State Security Committee of the Republic reports.

As noted by the department, the KGB Border Service conducted investigations on each fact of violation of legal regimes.