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South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev commented on RIA Novosti his meeting with deputies of the Italian national parliament Pino Cabras and Vito Comencini.

“This is the first time that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia has been received at this level. We believe that the deputies of the Italian parliament have the right to know about a different point of view besides the one that has been developing in the last decade around South Ossetia,” Medoev told RIA Novosti.

A meeting of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Relations, chaired by the head of the relevant committee, Zaza Driaev, was held in the Parliament of South Ossetia on Thursday, the press service of the legislative body reported.

A ceremony of commissioning a new power transmission line of strategic importance for the Republic is taking place in South Ossetia on Friday.

The event is being held with the participation of officials of the Republic, headed by President Anatoly Bibilov, the guests from Russia who are on a working visit to Tskhinval.

According to Anatoly Bibilov, the backup power line is of strategic importance for the Republic and its launch will ensure uninterrupted power supply.

The meeting of Igor Maslov, head of the Presidential Administration for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, with the chairmen of factions and the deputy association was held in the Parliament of South Ossetia on Thursday.

The meeting took place without media representatives.

According to the press service of the legislative body, the Speaker of the Parliament has noted that significant assistance is being provided to the Republic by Russia, the Republic is developing.

On November 16, a citizen of Georgia, Kurtanidze Beka Giyaevich, born in 1990, a resident of Tbilisi, was detained by officers of the border service of the KGB of South Ossetia for violating the state border regime, the press service of the KGB of the Republic of South Ossetia reported.

“It has been established that the said violator on September 21 deliberately crossed the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia with Georgia in Znaur District and was illegally staying with relatives in the capital of the Republic.

The construction of the basalt plant in the village of Pris, Tskhinval District, was inspected on Thursday by President Anatoly Bibilov, the Head of the Presidential Administration for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Igor Maslov, Russian Ambassador to the Republic Marat Kulakhmetov, Prime Minister Gennady Bekoev and other officials.

According to the presidential press service, the director of the Ir-Basalt enterprise, Roman Dzhioev, spoke about new opportunities, equipment, plant products and production volumes.

A meeting of the joint commission of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation on the implementation of the agreement on the mutual recognition of documents confirming the fact of establishing disability for military personnel of the Ministry of Defense and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of both states who were injured in connection with military service in South Ossetia was held on Thursday in Tskhinval.

South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev, at the end of his working visit to Italy, visited the grave of the prominent Italian journalist, political and public figure, former member of the European Parliament, Giulietto Chiesa, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reported.

Dmitry Medoev laid flowers with the ribbon of the national flag of the Republic of South Ossetia and the inscription “Giulietto Chiesa from the people of South Ossetia. President A.I. Bibilov ".

Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev, within the framework of his visit to the Italian Republic on the invitation of a group of deputies of the Italian parliament, visited the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome, where the Chamber of Deputies of Italy sits, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic reported.

In South Ossetia on Friday, a new power transmission line will be put into operation, which will ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity to the Republic, President of the Republic of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said at the expanded meeting with the participation of Deputy Security Council of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev, Head of the Russian President's Office for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Igor Maslov and other members of the Russian delegation who had arrived in the Republic .