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President Anatoly Bibilov has got acquainted with the conditions of service of border guards on the section of the South Ossetian-Georgian border near the settlement of Uista (Tsnelis), the press service of the head of state reported.

The Supreme Commander-in-Chief, accompanied by Oleg Siukaev, Head of the Znaur District Administration, Oleg Shiran, Chairman of the State Security Committee, and Valery Alikhanty, Acting Head of the KGB Border Service, visited a border post on the border with Georgia.

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia issued a message on Wednesday, which notes the emerging threats to security in the sanitary-epidemiological and economic spheres of the Republic.

“In particular, cases of infection with African swine fever (ASF) are recorded in all regions of South Ossetia. At the same time, it is known about the death of domestic animals from brucellosis and ASF in the Sachkhere municipality of Georgia bordering South Ossetia.

Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev has received the Ambassador of Abkhazia to the Republic Alan Elbakiev, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reported.

"During the conversation, the parties exchanged views on the state and prospects for the further development of the South Ossetian-Abkhazian relations, which contribute to strengthening friendship between the two countries and peoples, and also discussed some topical issues on the regional and international agenda," the message reads.

The people of South Ossetia can continue to firmly count on Russia's help, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev said on Tuesday at the meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic to the Russian Federation Znaur Gassiev.

February 1 is the Day of Science in South Ossetia. The holiday was established on February 4, 2014. Prior to this, Science Day was celebrated on February 8, as in Russia. The date of February 1 was chosen in connection with a significant event: on February 1, 1922, the "Scientific and Literary Society" was created - the first scientific institution in South Ossetia.

The celebration of the 13th anniversary of the deployment of the 4th Guards Vapnyar-Berlin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov military base in South Ossetia was held in Tskhinval. The acting commander of the fourth military base of the Guards Colonel Rajab Aliyev addressed the servicemen.

The Foreign Ministry sent a congratulatory message to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Finance of the Republic of Nauru on the occasion of the country's Independence Day, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia reported.

New wave of coronavirus has "covered" South Ossetia. Anti-records are updated almost daily. The number of detected cases of infection over the past day exceeded 200 people. At the same time, it can already be judged that the new wave is easier to bear.

In the “red zone” of the Republican Medical Center, 46 people are being treated, compared with the autumn wave, when the number of patients simultaneously treated in the infectious diseases’ hospital reached 180, and sometimes even 200 people, one can judge a milder form of the disease.

In South Ossetia, 204 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in a day, a total of 372 tests were carried out, Marina Kochieva, a head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee old the IA “Res”.

"To date 1,527 residents of the Republic are under the supervision of doctors with a positive test for covid, 65 people have been removed from the medical register. The number of infected people since the beginning of the pandemic has grown to 12,102 people, 10,575 have recovered," Kochieva said.

The South Ossetian Research Institute sent an appeal to UNESCO on the return of Scythian gold to the museums of Crimea, said director of the Vaneev South Ossetian Research Institute, archaeologist Robert Gagloity.

According to him, another appeal was made by the Ministry of Culture of South Ossetia.

“Any work that relates to our history is carried out in agreement with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of South Ossetia,” said Gagloity.