February 16 Council of the Moscow Ossetian community announced its decision, which reads as follows: "We are appealing to all the Ossetians in Moscow to take part in a demonstration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in support of the demand to recognize the genocide of the Ossetian people under the regime of Gamsakhurdia - Saakashvili from 1990 to 2008."
The Statement of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Republic of South Ossetia
Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Republic of South Ossetia has recently expressed its negative attitude to the meeting of the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church with several ethnic Ossetians in Moscow. This is a provocative act and is the first step to implement the policy of the Georgian authorities to create a "democratic" image of the present-day Georgia, as well as the shifting of blame for crimes against the people of South Ossetia on Saakashvili.
Statement of the South Ossetian Republican political party "Unity"
After suffering a collapse in their attempts to seize South Ossetia by military force, Georgia is using the resource of public diplomacy to achieve its goals. Messengers of the new Georgian regime, sent from Tbilisi, are designed to improve the image of their country in the eyes of Russians, shifting the responsibility for the blood of Ossetians and Russians on Saakashvili.
Yesterday in Moscow was held the æmbyrd (meeting) of the action group of the Moscow Ossetians, who had recently spoken against the meeting of members of the leadership of the Moscow Ossetian Community with the Catholicos of Georgia Ilia II.
The dress rehearsal for the concert program of the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Republic of South Ossetia "Simd" has been held today in Tskhinval. The concert program will be presented in Nicaragua, where the ensemble plans to fly on February 17.
The decision of the Council of the Moscow Ossetian community adopted 14.02.2013
Against the background of warming the Russian-Georgian relations are growing moods of anxiety in Ossetia, the risks of losing the national sovereignty. The situation is stirred up by a statement of Ivanishvili on non-use of force in addressing the issue, but reckon on public diplomacy, the evidence of which is a friendly meeting of the Georgian Patriarch with the Moscow Ossetians, free medical assistance to the people of South Ossetia in the Tbilisi hospitals, growing shuttle trade, travel of the Ossetians from South Ossetia and North Ossetia – Alania to Georgia on vacation, including to play in local casinos, plans to restore the Ergneti market, etc.
The decision of the Council of the Moscow Ossetian community adopted 14.02.2013
Against the background of warming the Russian-Georgian relations are growing moods of anxiety in Ossetia, the risks of losing the national sovereignty. The situation is stirred up by a statement of Ivanishvili on non-use of force in addressing the issue, but reckon on public diplomacy, the evidence of which is a friendly meeting of the Georgian Patriarch with the Moscow Ossetians, free medical assistance to the people of South Ossetia in the Tbilisi hospitals, growing shuttle trade, travel of the Ossetians from South Ossetia and North Ossetia – Alania to Georgia on vacation, including to play in local casinos, plans to restore the Ergneti market, etc.
Memorable events in celebration of the anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan have been arranged in Tskhinval:solemn laying of flowers and wreaths at the Memorial to the Afghan soldiers in the northern part of the town (district of Bam) and at the memorial cemetery chapel in the yard of the school № 5. The ceremony was attended by the leadership of South Ossetia headed by President Leonid Tibilov, Speaker of the Parliament Stanislav Kochiev, representatives of the Russian FSS Border Control Agency, the Fourth Military Base of the RF Defense Ministry, members of the Afghan War Veterans Union, relatives of the fallen Afghans, teachers and pupils of the boarding school in Tskhinval.
Two residents of South Ossetia have been released from Georgian prisons.
As IA "Res" has been informed at the Office of the Plenipotentiary of the President of South Ossetia, "the released are Margiev Omar Georgievich, born in 1981 and Tedeev Georgy Soslanovich, born in 1990."
South Ossetian President met with the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia.
Agricultural development in South Ossetia was discussed at a meeting of President Leonid Tibilov with the Russian Deputy Minister for Agriculture Ilya Shestakov. The meeting was also attended by Minister of Agriculture of the RSO Mairbek Guchmazov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Guram Melkoev, Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Elbrus Kargiev and Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Robert Zaseev.
The Head of State has welcomed the guests, noting that South Ossetia and Russia have been cooperating closely on issues of social development, and has expressed satisfaction that the cooperation will also be established in the agricultural sector.
