Зарина Хубаева

The red carpet and the company of the guard of honor in front of the presidential administration building in South Ossetia - this is how Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the Lugansk People's Republic, was greeted.

In Tskhinval was held a solemn ceremony of the meeting of President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, and the head of the Lugansk People’s Republic, Leonid Pasechnik. On the central square of Tskhinval, in front of the presidential administration building, were lined up a joint company and orchestra of the guard of honor of the Defense Ministry of the Republic.

Georgia is once again trying to inflate the international scandal and bring the usual border violation incident to the political plane, said during the briefing the head of the State Committee for Information and Press of South Ossetia, Maria Kotaeva,
“A few days ago, Georgian citizen Maya Otinashvili was detained by border guards for violating the border near the village of Aemdzaerin (formerly Tsinagar) on the territory of South Ossetia. This case differs from all other similar facts in that it helped others illegally crossing the border for a monetary reward,” said Kotaeva.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov has received the head of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology Alexei Abramov.

The head of state has expressed confidence that the interaction between the standardization and metrology structures of the Russian Federation and South Ossetia will be further strengthened.

The leading parties of South Ossetia and Syria will hold consultations on topical issues on the bilateral and international agenda, as well as to exchange delegations, told the Res news agency the leader of the party "United Russia" Alan Tadtaev.
According to him, the development of the Syrian-South Ossetian inter-party cooperation became possible after the signing of the agreement between the "United Ossetia" and the Party of Arab Socialist Revival (BAATH).
Tadtaev has stressed that the South Ossetian party intends to actively use the opening perspectives.

The delegation of the South Ossetian Parliament headed by the head of the legislative body of the republic Petr Gassiev will take part in the International Inter-Parliamentary Forum, which will be held June 4-5 in Moscow.
The forum expects a broad representation of legislative bodies in more than 90 countries of the world, including countries of Latin America, the African continent, etc. In addition to legislators, experts, political scientists and journalists will take part in the discussion of topical issues.

A group of mountaineers-skiers from Catalonia and Andorra made a decision to come to South Ossetia after the reports that the Republic can recognize the independence of Catalonia. This was reported to the information agency "Res" by the head of the group of representatives of the club "Himalaiaski" Chevy Ekslyas.

Citizens of South Ossetia cannot buy tickets for the 2018 FIFA World Cup because FIFA does not recognize the Republic, "told the Res news agency the Chairman of the Committee on Youth Policy, Sport and Tourism Sergei Zasseev.
He has noted that the restrictions affected not only South Ossetia, but also Abkhazia, the Republic of Crimea, as FIFA does not consider it a part of Russia.
But, nevertheless, according to Zasseev, there is a way out.

South Ossetian weightlifter Sarmat Ikaev performed at the WPC World powerlifting Championship in Moscow and won a gold medal. The athlete competed among juniors up to 23 years, in the weight group up to 125 kg.
As Ikaev himself has noted in the comment to "Res" agency, he took the first place, taking in the sum of triathlon 700 kg.
"Unfortunately, during the competition I received an injury and could not show everything I was preparing for. But, despite this, the coach appreciated my performance as quite successful", - Ikaev said.

During the meeting, the President thanked Galustyan for the work carried out within the framework of the meeting of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly, noting the relevance of the issues discussed.
Bibilov once again touched on the topic of preparing the meeting of the heads of the three republics participating in the Community of the State for Democracy and the Rights of Nations by the time of the next, 9th meeting of the Assembly next year.

The outgoing year was very fruitful for the interaction of the Abkhaz and South Ossetian parliaments, said Deputy Speaker of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia Levon Galustyan at a meeting with the first Vice Speaker of the South Ossetian Legislature.
"Soon, the Chairman of the Abkhazian Parliament will necessarily visit South Ossetia and hold talks with his colleagues. We are already at the finish of 2017, and we can sum up the preliminary results. It should be noted that the outgoing year was very fruitful for the interaction of the two parliaments, "Galustyan said.