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A meeting of the expert council was held at the Ministry of Education of South Ossetia, during which the projects implemented within the framework of grants were heard, the press service of the Ministry told IA "Res".

"Since 2009, the Ministry of Education has been holding scientific competitions jointly with the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research , within the framework of which scientific projects of scientists from South Ossetia and the Russian Federation are financed," the press service said.

The decision of the Strasbourg court in the case "Georgia against Russia" provoked conflicting responses from interested parties, South Ossetian expert Yuri Vazagov told IA "Res". According to him, officials in Georgia hastened to announce a historic victory over Russia and the beginning of "a new stage in the struggle for de-occupation."

The European Court of Human Rights has finally, after long trials, delivered a verdict on Georgia’s lawsuit against Russia, which it filed after the aggression against South Ossetia in 2008, when Georgia was forced to peace as an aggressor, said Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev ...

The Committee on Youth Policy and Sports of South Ossetia plans to organize the first International Forum for creative youth this year. Deputy head of the Committee Valentina Gatikoeva announced this at a press conference in Tskhinval on the topic "Time chooses the young".

According to her, talented young people living both in the Republic and abroad will be able to take part in the event.

It is still difficult to comment on the ECHR ruling on Georgia's claim, since the judicial act was adopted only yesterday, and the reasoning part contains about three hundred pages, which requires careful study and analysis, said Inal Tasoev, Ombudsman for Human Rights under the President of South Ossetia.

Apparently, the European Court of Human Rights had to make an incredible effort to admit the obvious - that it was the Georgian troops who started the hostilities against South Ossetia in August 2008, and Russia was able to take decisive action to force the aggressor to peace, only after a lapse of days necessary for the urgent transfer of forces and means, said President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia announced another fact of a defector from Georgia.

"Recently, the State Security Committee has recorded numerous attempts to illegally cross the border with subsequent appeals of the violators to the authorities. So, on December 28, 2020, in the vicinity of the village of Akhmadz, Leningor district, the border authorities of the Republic detained a citizen of Georgia Beka Akakievich Parchukashvili, born in 1993, a resident of Tbilisi, "the press service of the Committee reports.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will discuss coordination in the international arena with Acting Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev on January 25 in Moscow. This was announced on Thursday at a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

President Anatoly Bibilov met with a Commander of the 58th Army, Major General Mikhail Zusko, the press service of the head of state reports.

The President has noted that interaction between the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is expanding both at the level of interaction with the 58th Army, and directly on the territory of South Ossetia with the 4th military base of the Russian Federation.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) declared unfounded the accusations of Georgia against Russia in connection with the events of August 2008 in South Ossetia, the press service of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation reported.

It is noted that on January 21 the decision of the ECHR Grand Chamber on the interstate complaint "Georgia v Russia (II)" was published, the subject of which is the events of August 2008 in South Ossetia and their consequences.