The State Duma of Russia on Thursday ratified a protocol on amending the agreement between the Russian Federation and South Ossetia on cooperation and integration, providing for the lifting of mutual restrictions on the length of stay of citizens in the territories of both countries.
The corresponding bill was submitted to the State Duma by Russian President Vladimir Putin in April of this year.
The Moscow Ossetian community is the pride of both South Ossetia and North Ossetia, since Moscow is our common historical homeland, President Anatoly Bibilov said during a meeting with members of the Moscow Ossetian community, which took place in Moscow the day before.
"This is a fact, and I'm proud of it. The most prominent Ossetians living at different times in Moscow, whom we are proud of and whose names we pronounce with our heads held high, gathered in this community," the press service of the President and the government reports the words of the head of state.
President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov urged citizens of Ukraine not to give the former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili even the work of a janitor.
"Otherwise, it will not be possible to avoid riots," he said.
According to the President, Saakashvili harms even when he does nothing. “The higher is the position of this politician, the more he harms,” Bibilov said.
On the invitation of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the head of the South Ossetian Defense Ministry Ibrahim Gasseyev, at the head of the departmental delegation, is taking part in the international military-technical forum ARMY-2019. The fifth anniversary Forum is taking place in Moscow and the Moscow region.
Within the framework of the Forum program, the delegation took part in the plenary session "Army" - uniting the world, saving the future. " The official opening ceremony of the Forum is currently taking place.
A few days before the provocation, staged in the Georgian parliament, the head of the Joe Biden Foundation visited Tbilisi.
Moscow fears that the US is trying to do everything to prevent the normalization of relations between the Russian Federation and Georgia, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“We still have concerns that in this case, our American colleagues are trying to do everything to prevent normalization of relations between Russia and Georgia, and this normalization has been observed in recent years with all the evidence,” Lavrov said.
Russian Foreign Minister has noted that the role of the United States and its allies is estimated soberly.
Western countries ignore manifestations of nationalism and Russophobia in Georgia. This was announced on Monday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with the leaders of Russian regional non-profit organizations, reports TASS.
“Western curators are ready to close their eyes to the excesses of the nationalists, Russophobia, just to break all ties of the people of Georgia with our country, rewrite our common history,” he said.
An exhibition of Ossetian artists has opened in Luxembourg, which will last until June 30, the press service of the Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. The exhibition presents the works by Ossetian masters Nina and Sergey Savlayev, Karina Kachmazova, Magrez Kelekhsaev, Alan Kasoyev, Lyudmila Baitsaeva, Yuri Abisalov, Viktor Tsallagov and Vadim Pukhaev.
At a meeting of the organizers of the Days of Ossetian Culture in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, an agreement was reached on further cooperation.
Last week took place a press tour of foreign journalists to South Ossetia. As part of the media group for the first time our country was visited by Syrian journalists. Syria recognized South Ossetia, there are prospects for the development of bilateral relations, including in the information sphere. Res agency continues the cycle of interviews with Syrian colleagues. The correspondent of Syrian television Saam Al Mardinim Feras for the first time in South Ossetia, and shared his impressions.
Today we see the collapse of the last stronghold of Georgia - Orthodoxy, and then - the inevitable end.
The head of the Foreign Ministry of South Ossetia, Dmitry Medoev, believes that tourists from Russia are needed in Georgia to ease the financial burden of its western patrons, and the Georgian people and their spiritual values are not in their interests. He expressed this opinion to TASS.
South Ossetia has reached its goal, having passed through great trials, - SANA agency correspondent
This week there was a press tour to South Ossetia for the media from Syria and Iran. IA '' Res '' has published an interview with a member of the press tour, correspondent of the Moscow bureau of the SANA agency Adam Hanna.
- You`ve been in South Ossetia for several days, did your expectations from what you have seen come true?
