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Representatives of South Ossetia will take part in the II International Folk Music Festival "Youth. Art. Creation", which will be held from December 7-9 in Nalchik on the basis of the North Caucasus State Institute of Arts, the press service of Ministry of Culture of the Republic of South Ossetia reports.

The event will be attended by soloist students and groups (ensembles, orchestras) of secondary specialized and higher musical educational institutions.

The Alan community of MGIMO represented Ossetia at the cultural festival of the peoples of Russia “Heritage”, reports the press service of the Moscow Ossetian Community.

“Unity, friendship and brotherhood are the fundamental elements of relations between the peoples of multinational Russia” - it was under this slogan that at the end of November MGIMO hosted a gala concert of the cultural festival of the peoples of Russia “Heritage”, organized by the Community of Russian University Students.

The guys presented a video about the legends and traditions of Ossetia.

The passionate speech of Mikheil Saakashvili’s uncle, the UN former employee Temur Alasania, may be aimed at pushing a certain political platform to support extremist slogans and their subsequent wide public discussion. This was stated by the head of the information and analytical department of the President of South Ossetia, Yuri Vazagov, commenting on Temur Alasania’s recent call to the Georgian society to resolve the issue of returning the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to Georgia by force.

A meeting of the bilateral committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia and North Ossetia-Alania on the cross-border cooperation was held in Tskhinval on Friday.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, the meeting was attended by ministers of internal affairs, heads of departments and services of law enforcement agencies of the two republics, as well as the leadership of the joint information and coordination center.

In Tskhinval, Azamat Bestaev, perished while performing his military duty in the zone of the special military operation, was given the last honours.

Condolences to the family and friends of the deceased were expressed by President Alan Gagloev, Chairman of Parliament Alan Alborov, Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov, colleagues, relatives and friends.

A representative of the 4th Russian military base, where Bestaev served, has noted that Azamat was the example for his colleagues.

The security forces of South Ossetia and North Ossetia-Alania are working jointly, establishing interaction at the highest level, President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev noted during a meeting with Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Demyan Laptev.

The head of state noted the positive results in improving the activities of law enforcement agencies, achieved through fruitful interdepartmental interaction.

Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Galuzin discussed on Thursday with the heads of delegations at the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia, State Advisor to the President of South Ossetia Konstantin Kochiev and his Abkhaz colleague Irakli Tuzhba, the task of quickly developing legally binding guarantees of the non-use of force by Tbilisi in relation to Sukhum and Tskhinval.

This is stated in the message of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Lovers of Russian literature in South Ossetia are invited to take part in the international poetry competition for young readers “The Living Classics”.

According to the Russian House in Tskhinval, more than a thousand Russian compatriots living abroad, as well as foreigners studying the Russian language, take part in the competition every year.

Cooperation between the theaters of South Ossetia and the Chechen Republic will be developing, the artistic director of the Khanpashi Nuradilov Chechen State Drama Theater said during the press conference in Tskhinval Khava Akhmadova.

The first day of the tour of the Khanpashi Nuradilov Chechen Drama Theater took place in Tskhinval the night before.

On Tuesday, the theater will also host a performance of the play “To the Mountains Follow You,” dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The exhibition-exposition of paintings by the Ossetian artist, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia Igor Lotiev “Legends and Heroes of Ossetia” took place in the capital of the Russian Federation - Moscow. The event was organized as part of the Days of Culture and History of South Ossetia, according to the website of the Moscow Ossetian community.