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The Ministry of Culture of South Ossetia is to hold events devoted to the second anniversary of the Georgian aggression of August 2008. As reported by Deputy Minister of Culture Julietta Djeranova, several photography exhibitions would be open in Tskhinval to focus on the war in August 2008. “A photo exhibition will be held in front of the government building, as well as at the Culture House Sofprof in Tskhinval”, said Djeranova. Documentary films about the August aggression will be also shown.”

The Delegation of South Ossetia is leaving for a new round of Geneva Discussions on security and stability in South Caucasus. The head of the delegation, the Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev stated to the IA RES that South Ossetia would again raise in Geneva the issue on elaboration of non-use of force paper. “We will discuss the possibility of signing an interim document that would guarantee non-use of force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Armed persons, who had penetrated from the Georgian territory, abducted a citizen of South Ossetia and took him to Georgia. "On 27 July 2010 at 5:40 the RSO Interior Ministry received a phone call to report on the abduction of Mikhail Kulumbegov, 1965, from his home in the village of Gvirgvina, Znaur district of South Ossetia", reported the Interior Ministry Duty Service.

Today, on 23 July, is the 104th anniversary of the first Ossetian newspaper "Iron gazet". The Chairman of the State Committee for information, communication and media of the Republic of South Ossetia told journalists about the problems and perspectives of the work in this sector.

- 23 July is annually celebrated as the Day of Media in our Republic. Taking into account the recent tragedy killing our compatriots, we decided to postpone the event for a later date. I am running dew steps forward to say that we will be celebrating our media holiday wider and wider every year. Because, the contribution of journalists into the development of our Republic is immense, and so far, this input has not found due appreciation. This year, due to the reasons I have mentioned, we decided to limit the events only to the official part, that is to awarding of media representatives with state awards.

On 18 July 2010, the delegation of the Republic of South Ossetia headed by the President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity arrived in Managua to participate in the celebrations devoted to the 31st anniversary of the Revolution. The invitation from the President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega to the President of South Ossetia was received after the visit of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua Samuel Santos to South Ossetia in June.

On 21 July 201, the South Ossetian Delegation headed by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity arrived in Caracas, the capital city of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. In the Simon Bolivar International Airport the high official was met with guard of honor, and the orchestra played the state anthem of the Republic of South Ossetia.

The Parliament of South Ossetia approved the law-making initiative of the Government of the Republic on allocation of more than 292 million roubles to the Ministry of Economic Development for construction of municipal housing. A corresponding law envisaging amendments to the state budget for the year 2010 was passed at today's Parliament session.

The president of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity arrived with an official visit to Nicaragua 19 July, reported the president's administration. In the airport, the delegation was met by the Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Samuel Santos. A guard of honor was lined up at the airfield. The South Ossetian delegation includes the Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Murat Djioev, the State Advisor to the President Konstantin Kochiev, RSO Ambassador in the RF Dmitry Medoev, as well as representatives the parliament and government of the Republic.

On 18 July 2010, at the attempted illegal crossing of the state border of South Ossetia with Georgia, the duty team of the Border-Guard Deparment of the RF FSB in South Ossetia detained Georgian citizens in the village of Lopan, Znaur district, reported the Border-Guard Department of the RSO KGB.
According to the information provided by the KGB, "Samkharadze Alik Yurievich, 1976, Samkharadze Besik Yurievich, 1982, Kalatozeshvili Nikoloz Shakroevich, 1983, Labadze Ramaz Petrovich, 1976, Labadze Yamze Petrovna, 1978, Khomsuridze Nargiz Arsenovna, 1967, tried to leave South Ossetia for Kareli district of Georgia bypassing the official checkpoints.

The Russian Border-guards will provide a helicopter for emergency evacuation of those injured in the road accident with the bus, which fell down to a ditch Sunday evening at the TRANSKAM main road, reported the Head of the President’s Administration Arsen Gagloev. “It was agreed wit the Border-Guard department that helicopters would be provided in case of emergency evacuations needed for those injured”, said Gagloev. According to him, the death toll reached 11; personal details are still under identification. Four persons are in grave state.