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Thanks to the brave defenders of South Ossetia and firm decisions of the Russian government, in 2008, in the life of the Ossetian people started a new era, said the President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov, speaking at the commemorative action "Candle of Memory."
He has expressed his condolences to the families and friends of those killed in August 2008, civilians, Russian and South Ossetian servicemen, saying that thanks to them the South Ossetian people live today in a free Republic.

In Tskhinval on August 8 will be held the International theoretical and practical conference "The Geopolitics of the new world since August 2008. The beginning of the geopolitical re-division and conflict in the post-Soviet space." The organizer of the conference, dedicated to the sixth anniversary of the aggression of Georgia is the State Committee of Information and Press of South Ossetia.

At the state border between South Ossetia and Georgia, in the village of Ergneti was held a regular meeting in the framework of the Mechanisms for Preventing and Responding to Incidents (MPRI).
According to the head of the South Ossetian delegation, Deputy Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of the RSO for post-conflict settlement Khokh Gagloyty, in the course of the meeting were discussed a number of issues, including those relating to the citizens of South Ossetia, kept in Georgian prisons.

Memorandum on cooperation in the field of information has been signed today by leaders of a number of media in South and North Ossetia.
The Chairman of the State Information and Press Committee of the RSO Vyacheslav Gobozov congratulated the journalists on the Day of the National Media. He has stressed that the signing of the memorandum will give a new impetus to the integration process between North and South Ossetia.

The work of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia should be intensified, stated the President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov during the meeting in Tskhinval with the co-chairmen of the discussions.

Assistance provided by South Ossetia to residents of the Luhansk People's Republic and the Donetsk People's Republic, is purely humanitarian, said State Councilor to the RSO President Zhanna Zasseeva.
According to her, South Ossetia has not sent weapons to Luhansk.

The South Ossetian delegation is preparing concrete proposals for the upcoming round of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia, said in Tskhinval at the meeting with the UN, the OSCE and the EU co- chairs of the Geneva discussions Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.

Deployment of peacekeeping forces in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict has become possible thanks to energetic actions of the Russian Federation to reduce tensions in the region, stated the President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov, speaking at the ceremonial meeting at the 4th Russian military base in Tskhinval, dedicated to the 22-th anniversary of entry of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces into the Republic.

Today in the border village of Ergneti has been held a regular meeting in the format of Mechanisms to prevent and respond to incidents (MPRI). The participants discussed the situation at the South Ossetian-Georgian border, considered a number of incidents occurred since the previous meeting.

In order to create a unified procedure for crossing the state border of the Russian Federation, as well as better control over migration processes on the entry and exit the territory of Russia, the Russian law on dual citizenship has been amended and supplemented.