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A round table on the topic "Message of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia and the priorities of the state-building: The estimates and conclusions" was held in the capital of South Ossetia. The event was organized by the State Committee of Information and Press of South Ossetia.
The roundtable was chaired by the head of the State Committee of Information and Press Vyacheslav Gobozov, who noted that the message of the President of the Republic to the parliament and to the people of South Ossetia, delivered on April 30, was a very remarkable and significant event.

Orthodox Christians in South Ossetia are celebrating Easter. On the night of Sunday at the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tskhinval was a solemn public liturgy in honor of the holiday, held by the Archpriest of the Tskhinval churches, priest Jacob Khetagurov.

Life –sentence South Ossetian prisoners in Georgia, participated in the hunger strike in the Gldani prison № 8 in Tbilisi on April15 – 25, have been visited by their relatives. As the news agency "Res" was informed by Lyudmila Usovich, a mother of one of the prisoners - Georgy Zasseev, the meeting had been organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross on April 30.

Russia is a strategic partner of South Ossetia forever. This was stated by South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov in his first Message to the Parliament and people of the Republic.

Reliable protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the South Ossetia remains a key priority in foreign policy of the Republic. This was stated by the President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov, speaking with the first, after taking office, Presidential message to the people and to the Parliament of the Republic.

Questions of establishing compulsory social insurance system and coordination of the project of the state program on the development of public health in South Ossetia in 2013 - 2020 were discussed in the course of a few days working visit to Moscow by the RSO Minister of Health and Social Insurance Gregory Kulidzhanov and the RSO Presidential State Adviser on social issues Rodion Siukaev.

Members of the South Ossetian part of the Intergovernmental Committee on socio-economic cooperation between South Ossetia and Russia at today's meeting in Tskhinval have discussed with the Russian colleagues questions of sectoral development programs to be approved, which will be included in the investment program to promote socio-economic development of South Ossetia.

South Ossetian journalists attended the press conference of the governor of the Volgograd region of Russia Sergey Bozhenov with journalists from the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia, which took place within the framework of the International Historico- Cultural Forum "The Great Victory, won by unity: Peoples of the Caucasus in the Battle of Stalingrad " on April 25 in the city of Volgograd.

Life-sentenced prisoners of Gldani prison in Tbilisi (Georgia), among whom are three citizens of South Ossetia - Georgy Zasseev, Joseph Kochiev and Georgy Valiev – have stopped the hunger strike, started on April 15, 2013.

The mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia has been supporting the low-income large families in the implementation of micro projects.
As IA "Res" was reported by a spokesperson of the ICRC mission in South Ossetia Marina Tedety, "as a result of last year's assessment of the living conditions of large families in South Ossetia, the ICRC mission selected potential participants in the program of microeconomic initiatives, which allows the families to provide a small but steady income."