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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko discussed with representatives of the EU, UN and OSCE the situation on the border of South Ossetia and Georgia, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.

The consultations in Moscow were attended by the co-chairs of the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia – the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Toivo Klaar, the UN Representative Cihan Sultanoglu and Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for the South Caucasus Annika Söder.

In the village of Kusret, Tskhinval district, in an abandoned house, local residents found two hand-held anti-tank grenades (RPG-26) and one powder charge - PGSM, - the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia told IA “Res “.

"Eyewitnesses reported to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the republic, the sappers of the rescue department quickly went to the place, they examined the adjacent territory and took the shells to the landfill," the Ministry noted.

The shells were defused by the sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Professor of the Alexander Tibilov, South Ossetian State University, Head of the Department of Biology Teimuraz Kokoev received an invitation to the III World Conference "Plant Biology - 2021".

As the scientist himself commented on the invitation to IA Res, "the selection of participants was based on publications in the English-language editions of the Web of Science platform, taking into account the mutual citation of publications of scientists of the world."

The South Ossetian authorities, within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM), demanded that Georgia remove its police post from the territory of the Uista village of the Republic. This was reported to journalists by the head of the South Ossetian delegation, Yegor Kochiev.

20 applications were submitted to the competition between the RFBR and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of South Ossetia

More than 30 projects of Russian scientists with colleagues from France, Hungary, South Ossetia and Vietnam in the field of the humanities and social sciences will receive grants from 700 thousand to 1.5 million rubles. within 1-3 years from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). The results of the competitions were published on Friday on the Foundation's website.

Georgian police officers are increasing their presence in the border areas, creating several stronger points, one of which is located on the territory of South Ossetia, said the head of the South Ossetian delegation, Yegor Kochiev, after the 98th meeting in the IPRM format ended and the first in 2021.

According to Kochiev, recent meetings are held in an incomplete format, this is due to the difficult epidemiological situation in connection with the spread of coronavirus infection.

A meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) is taking place on the South Ossetian-Georgian border. According to the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev, this is the first meeting in 2021.

“Due to the coronavirus pandemic, last year, only two face-to-face meetings were held, although the hotline is constantly communicating. Representatives of the OSCE and the EU assured us that they would take all necessary measures to ensure security from the coronavirus,” the Plenipotentiary said.

Ministry of Agriculture of South Ossetia is planning to hold a scientific conference on agriculture, said Acting Minister of Agriculture Alan Margiev during a briefing in Tskhinval.

“The main problematic issues will be discussed and the ways of their solution from the scientific point of view will be outlined,” Margiev noted.

The number of new cases of coronavirus infection in South Ossetia has increased by 21 in a day. In total, 3081 infected people have been identified in the Republic since the beginning of the pandemic, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy Head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, said on Thursday.

A day earlier, 10 infected were revealed, According to the Committee, 95 tests were conducted the day before.

At the plenary session on Wednesday the Federation Council approved the law on ratification of the agreement with South Ossetia on the mutual recognition of documents on disability of former employees of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of both countries.