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First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Andrey Tskhovrebov was given the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. This was reported by the press service of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic.

"The diplomatic rank was assigned to Tskhovrebov by the decree of President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev," the report says.

This is the highest-class rank, which is awarded to officials in the Foreign Ministry system.

A cooperation agreement was signed between the capitals of South Ossetia and the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic on Monday. The agreement on establishing sister city relations between the two cities was signed by the mayor of Tskhinval Geno Kadzhaev and the head of the municipality of Cherkessk Valery Deduk.

As noted by Deduk, a long and thorough work has been done on the agreement and expressed hope for fruitful work.

On Monday, President Alan Gagloev received a delegation from the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, which arrived in Tskhinval on a working visit, the press service of the head of state reports.

The delegation has included the head of the municipality of Cherkessk Valery Deduk, adviser to the mayor of Cherkessk Alexei Statsenko, adviser to the head of the KChR on humanitarian cooperation with South Ossetia Eduard Khugaev and deputy of the Duma of the municipality of Cherkessk Albert Dzugaev.

President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev visited the IDPs from the Donetsk People's Republic in Tskhinval and congratulated them on the upcoming New Year, the press service of the head of state reports.

Gagloev wished them peace and happiness, expressing confidence that soon all the difficulties will end, and the special operation will reach its logical conclusion.

Fifteen children from families of citizens of South Ossetia who went missing during the armed conflicts in 1990-2008 rested at the Tsey resort in North Ossetia. This was reported to the agency "Res" by the head of the ICRC press service Marina Tedety.

On Saturday, the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry issued a comment on the completion of the investigation by the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court of the events of August 2008.

The International Criminal Court has completed its investigation into the case of war crimes committed during Georgia's full-scale military aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia in August 2008 and does not intend to conduct new investigations.

An agreement was reached with the head of the State Duma of Russia, Vyacheslav Volodin, on the creation of a joint commission of the legislative bodies of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation, Chairman of the South Ossetian Parliament Alan Alborov told reporters, commenting on the results of the working trip of parliamentarians of the Republic to Moscow.

The investigation by the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in Georgia in 2008 once again showed hypocrisy and double standards in approaches to justice.

This is stated in a comment issued on Friday by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in connection with the completion of the investigation by the ICC.

The stay of the International Committee of the Red Cross in South Ossetia was extended for a year, the corresponding decision was made at the meeting of the government of the Republic on Wednesday.

The draft resolution on the extension of the work of the ICRC in the Republic was presented by Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Tskhovrebov.

“According to available information, in 2022 the Red Cross spent 1 million 137 thousand Swiss francs, next year this amount will be increased to 1 million 300 thousand,” said the Deputy Minister.

On Tuesday, President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev met with People's Artist of Russia, Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre, a conductor Valery Gergiev, the press service of the head of state reports.

Tours of the Mariinsky Theater under the direction of Valery Gergiev are being held in Vladikavkaz as part of the Leading Theaters project.

Valery Gergiev greeted Alan Gagloev and told about the concert program.