December 12-13 in Vladikavkaz is under way the International Conference "Features and prospects of international processes in North and South Ossetia," organized by the Vladikavkaz Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Government of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania and the North Ossetian Institute of Humanities and Social Studies.
The participants of the conference are discussing the prospects of political, legal, historical, cultural and socio-economic integration of North and South Ossetia. Among the participants of the conference are: Doctor of History, Professor Dzidzoev, Candidate of History, Professor Gagloev, Candidate of Philosophy Dzugayev, Candidate of History Chibirov, Associate Professor Sanakoev, Doctor of History Dzattiaty and other outstanding scientists.
Within the framework of the International Conference will take place a presentation of the book by Boris Chochiev "Georgian chroniclers and historians about South Ossetia and Georgia." The book contains fragments of works of Georgian historians and scientific works of famous Georgian historians about early stages of the history of Ossetians and Georgians, confirming the Ossetian ethnos to be indigenous in South Ossetia and shedding light on the question of the original motherland of Georgian people.
Boris Chochiev is a Head of the Presidential Executive Office of the Republic of South Ossetia. In different years, he served as a Chairman of the State Committee for Nationalities and Migration, Minister for Special Assignments of the RSO, Minister for Special Affairs of South Ossetia, First Deputy Prime Minister of South Ossetia. From 1993 to 2008 - co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission for the Georgian- Ossetian conflict from the South Ossetian side.
