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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is on vacation, attended the opening of the Bayreuth Music Festival, which began with a performance by Russian conductor Valery Gergiev.

The 108th Bayreuth Music Festival has opened on Green Hill in Bayreuth (Bavaria). After posing on the red carpet, the guests of honor went to listen to the premiere of the opera “Tannhäuser” directed by Tobias Kratzer. The orchestra was conducted by Valery Gergiev.

The parties, at the suggestion of the South Ossetian side, agreed to celebrate a single journalist day - July 23

Journalists of North and South Ossetia shared their experiences. InVladikavkaz, for the first time, has been held a scientific-practical conference “Media North-South”. The conference has brought together representatives of all types of media. In the course of live communication, representatives of the media of North and South Ossetia discussed issues of cooperation, as well as the development of modern regional media.

The first coach of the former world heavyweight champion Murat Gassiev Vitaly Slanov told about the state of health of Murat. It should be reminded, the boxer was forced to abandon the heavyweight debut, scheduled for July 27. The reason was another injury.

According to Slanov, Murat does not need surgery. A couple of weeks the athlete will spend in Germany for rehabilitation.

The third group of young people left Tskhinval for the eleventh shift of the All-Russian Educational Youth Forum "Tavrida", the press service of the Committee on Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism informs.

Participants of the eleventh video content shift are producers, directors, vainers, clip makers, animators, interviewers, authors and actors of Internet serials and short films, motion designers. The delegation from South Ossetia includes students of the South-Ossetian State University Lyubov Dzhioeva, Anna Medoeva and Suzanna Zasseeva.

The route Tskhinval - Vladikavkaz - Sukhum will run all year round.

South Ossetia and Abkhazia signed an agreement on international motor traffic. The document was signed between the State Administration of the Republic of Abkhazia for Transport and the Committee on Industry, Transport and Energy of the Republic of South Ossetia.

The event was attended by Ambassador of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Republic of Abkhazia Oleg Botsiev, Head of the Department of Strategic Cooperation Jemal Bganba.

Representatives of the all-Russian organization “Officers of Russia”, led by the head of the veteran organization in Yaroslavl, lieutenant colonel of the FSB reserve Viktor Vysotsky, visited Tskhinval, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reports.

The large-scale bilateral exercises with the participation of two combined-arms armies began in the Southern Military District (South-East Military District) against the background of the planned maneuvers of the member countries and partners of NATO in Georgia. This is stated in the district press service spread on Tuesday.

Murat Gassiev was awarded the "Star of Boxing" award for the fight with Cuban Junier Dorticos. The award ceremony took place on Monday within the framework of the International Boxing Day on Red Square in Moscow, reports TASS.

“I want to congratulate everyone on the International Boxing Day. This is a young holiday. But knowing that there are many people of different generations and different nationalities here, I can say with confidence that boxing unites,” said Alexei Rubezhnoy, Chairman of the supervisory board of the Russian Boxing Federation.

In the run-up to the centenary of the Ossetian genocide in the twenties of the last century, young people in South Ossetia launched a flash mob on social networks calling for recognition of the Ossetian genocide by Georgia.

Anna Kokoeva, a student at the South Ossetian State University`s Journalism Department, says that she supported the call, because she considers it important that the whole world know about those terrible events. In 2020, South Ossetia will mark the tragic date - the centenary of the genocide of the Ossetian people, committed by Georgia.

The Chairman of the government of South Ossetia, Eric Pukhaev, met with the Chairman of the State Committee for Information and Press, Maria Kotaeva, during which she familiarized herself with the results of the department’s work in the first half of 2019, the press service of the Premier reports.