Джульетта Козаева

Questions of interaction of law enforcement agencies to ensure the national security of South Ossetia have been discussed today during the meeting of the President of the Republic Leonid Tibilov and Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Rashid Nurgaliyev with the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia.

The Investment program to promote socio-economic development of South Ossetia in 2013 will help to solve a number of complex and extremely pressing social problems in the Republic, said at the briefing in Tskhinval Minister of Economic Development of South Ossetia Zalina Khugati, commenting on the results of the eighth meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on socio- economic cooperation between South Ossetia and Russia, held in Moscow on June 19, 2013.

Parliament of South Ossetia during today's presidium has approved the investment program to promote socio-economic development of the Republic for 2012-2013, approved at the eighth meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic and social cooperation between South Ossetia and Russia.

Flash-poll: Today South Ossetia is marking the Day of the National Media. What this date means for you?

Irina Gagloeva, head of the Media center "IR":
The Day of the National Media is a very important date. 107 years ago, on July 23, was issued the first publication of the newspaper "Iron gazette."

Abkhazian delegation led by Presidential Adviser of the Republic of Abkhazia for Military Affairs, Major General Zakan Nanba arrived today in South Ossetia. The delegation has also included the mothers of the Abkhazian fighters, perished in the Abkhaz-Georgian war (1992-1993).

By the fifth anniversary of the recognition of the independence of South Ossetia, the people of the Republic will receive gifts -facilities, jobs and competent management solutions, announced today the head of the Ministry of Regional Development of Russia Igor Slyunyaev at a briefing in Tskhinval. He has noted that on the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin a representative group of Russian experts is working in the Republic second day with the task of helping the South Ossetian colleagues in the preparation of the investment program for the next three years.

On May 31 General Prosecutor of Georgia Archil Kbilashvili during a meeting with the relatives of the missing citizens of South Ossetia promised to resume the investigation and apply all efforts to clarify their fate. As IA "Res" was informed by Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights of South Ossetia Inal Tasoev, the meeting had been organized with the assistance of the OSCE Representative Andria Deshchitsa.

Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria is the first signatory to the 2003 full-scale cooperation agreement with the unrecognized at that time Republic of South Ossetia, said today the South Ossetian Parliament Speaker Stanisłav Kochiev at a briefing in Tskhinval.

The signing of the historically significant document - Memorandum on cooperation between the parliaments of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria - has confirmed the readiness of the two republics to mutually beneficial cooperation in all fields, was said by the Speaker of Kabardino-Balkaria Anuar Chechenov at the briefing in Tskhinval. He has expressed the hope that in the near future a similar agreement will be signed between the heads of Kabardino-Balkaria and South Ossetia Arsen Kanokov and Leonid Tibilov.

The summit has raised the status of South Ossetia as an independent and sovereign state, told reporters Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Yuri Dzitstsoity, commenting on the results of the meeting of Leonid Tibilov and Vladimir Putin on May 21 in Sochi. The meeting of the presidents of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation, according to him, is of course, a very important political step for the development of the statehood of South Ossetia.
"Russia has protected us from the Georgian aggressor and the first has recognized our independence.