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President of the Republic of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov and Chairman of the Gazprom Management Board Alexei Miller met in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, the press service of the head of state reported.

"The meeting discussed the progress and prospects of cooperation. In particular, they discussed the implementation of the Agreement" On the terms of purchase and sale of shares and further activities of Gazprom open joint stock company - South Ossetia and the gasification of settlements of the Republic «, - the press service informs.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed the hope that the current regime in Kiev will not follow the path of the ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili "of the 2008 model."

"I hope that even the current Kiev regime will not follow the path of Mikhail Saakashvili of the 2008 model," the head of the diplomatic department said at the press conference on Tuesday.

Another group of South Ossetian residents who had been seriously ill with COVID-19 returned after undergoing a rehabilitation course in one of the Russian sanitariums in Pyatigorsk.

The program for undergoing rehabilitation by residents of South Ossetia who have recovered from coronavirus infection is being implemented by the Health Ministry of the republic on behalf of President Anatoly Bibilov.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that countries be prepared to strengthen social and sanitary measures amid the emergence of the omicron coronavirus strain.

“Taking into account the risk assessment, epidemiological situation, response capacities, vaccination rates ... as well as the uncertainty associated with the rapidly evolving omicron strain, countries should be prepared to strengthen social and health measures in a timely manner to avoid excessive demand for medical services, " the organization's report says.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov met with the head of the Traumatology Department of the Clinical Hospital of the Republic of Dagestan Ratmir Abdusalamov, who had arrived with his team in Tskhinval for high-tech hip replacement surgery, the press service of the head of state reported.

The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Health and Social Development of the RSO Soslan Naniev.

The Head of State thanked Ratmir Abdusalamov and in his person all the invited specialists from the Republic of Dagestan for the work done.

The online roundtable was held with the participation of the Prosecutor General's Office of South Ossetia and the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia as part of the implementation of the program of cooperation between the supervisory departments of the two countries for 2020-2021, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of South Ossetia reported.

The new backup power transmission line is a strategically important project for South Ossetia, President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov said at the ceremony of launching the backup power transmission line.

The reserve power transmission line is a gigantic project that we have been going for a long time, - Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Rashid Nurgaliyev said at the ceremony of launching a backup power transmission line in South Ossetia.

In South Ossetia on Friday, a backup power line was launched in a solemn ceremony.

President Anatoly Bibilov, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Rashid Nurgaliev and the Head of the Presidential Directorate for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Igor Maslov, members of the Russian delegation and the power engineers themselves pressed the main button for starting the power line.

South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev commented on RIA Novosti his meeting with deputies of the Italian national parliament Pino Cabras and Vito Comencini.

“This is the first time that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia has been received at this level. We believe that the deputies of the Italian parliament have the right to know about a different point of view besides the one that has been developing in the last decade around South Ossetia,” Medoev told RIA Novosti.