South Ossetia has already taken counter steps in relation to Georgia, now it’s its turn, said President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov.
Earlier, he has voiced the conditions for peaceful coexistence with Georgia - a recognition of the 1920 genocide, the signing of a memorandum on the non-use of force and recognition of the independence of South Ossetia.
A group of South Ossetian schoolchildren will go to Nicaragua for the first time, which was one of the first to recognize the independence of South Ossetia. This was reported to TASS by the President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov.
"We agreed to send our schoolchildren to Nicaragua so that they could get to know this country, its culture, see the sights with their own eyes," the President said and specified that the winners of the Republican school Olympiads will go there.
August 2008. Five days of the war. 11 years later. Russian journalists are telling about the war in South Ossetia
Each viewer of the Rossiya and TVC television channels knows his face in a helmet with the inscription “press”, his reports are almost always saturated with gunpowder and blood. Evgeny Poddubny, a military journalist:
August 8, 2008 is a day of endless tragedies and quiet hope. Every 10 minutes, my friends and I learned that one of our close friends had died or, on the contrary, had survived.
President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov told a foreign journalist a joke illustrating the US habit of interfering in the internal affairs of other states.
South Ossetia is negotiating the recognition of the republic with a number of states. In the near future, recognition can be expected from several UN member states, said President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.
“Negotiations are ongoing with many countries, and it’s no secret that Russian colleagues provide great support. I think that we will see not one, but several recognitions from the states -members of the UN,” the President told reporters.
The head of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said that he had invited President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega to visit the Republic in 2020.
"I invited the President of Nicaragua, there is an invitation. President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega accepted this invitation, we hope and tentatively agreed that this could be next year," Anatoly Bibilov told reporters.
According to him, during a recent visit to this country, representatives of the leadership of South Ossetia and Nicaragua "agreed that we will develop our relations both in the cultural sphere and economic spheres."
Ninety-five percent of South Ossetian citizens have Russian passports, said South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov.
" 95 percent of South Ossetians are citizens of the Russian Federation. It is not only right, it is necessary," Bibilov told reporters.
He has reminded that, with Russian passports, residents of South Ossetia can solve their pressing problems, get an education, travel around the world. In addition, having Russian passports "suggests that Ossetians have always considered Russia their historical homeland," the President said.
The politician is sure that the Republic should restore historical justice
President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said that the Republic should be part of Russia and the Ossetian people should be united.
South Ossetia fears that the emergence of a number of plant and animal diseases in the region may be related to the activities of the Lugar laboratory in Georgia, Alan Margiev, the head of the state veterinary and phytosanitary surveillance service, told reporters.
There are 197 people in the Support Fund for the Wounded Disabled during the Hostilities in South Ossetia from 1992 to 2008, eight guys did not live up to the eleventh anniversary of the August war, the head of the Fund Madina Plieva said at a briefing in the State Committee for Information and Press.
“And many are alive thanks to the prompt and professional help of our doctors, who today help the disabled guys,” Plieva says with tears in her eyes.
