South Ossetia should raise the issue of returning the unique Okon triptych, stolen from the Republic's museum in the 1990s, at all possible venues. Merab Zasseev, director of the National Museum, told IA “Res” about this.
Zasseev has expressed confidence that the Georgian side is not considering the need to transfer the Okon triptych to the South Ossetian side.
Western attempts to open a “second front” against Russia in the Caucasus, in particular in Georgia, are becoming illusory, Leonid Slutsky, head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, said in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, Chargé d'Affaires of Ukraine in Georgia, Andrei Kasyanov, said that Kyiv had asked Tbilisi to return the Buk complexes transferred to it in 2008, but the Georgian authorities refused.
On Saturday, the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry issued a comment on the completion of the investigation by the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court of the events of August 2008.
The International Criminal Court has completed its investigation into the case of war crimes committed during Georgia's full-scale military aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia in August 2008 and does not intend to conduct new investigations.
An agreement was reached with the head of the State Duma of Russia, Vyacheslav Volodin, on the creation of a joint commission of the legislative bodies of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation, Chairman of the South Ossetian Parliament Alan Alborov told reporters, commenting on the results of the working trip of parliamentarians of the Republic to Moscow.
South Ossetia is not indifferent to what is happening in the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, and we show this by our participation in the special military operation,” MP David Sanakoev said in a commentary to the “Res” news agency.
“Our volunteers went to the Donbass back in 2014, and since then they have been participating in this fight on the side of the defenders of Donbass. In addition, our state was the first to recognize the independence of the DPR and the LPR. We show our solidarity with these republics in every possible way,” Sanakoev said.
The events in Ukraine had a global impact on the whole world, including South Ossetia, - Alexander Pliev, Vice-Speaker of the Republic's Parliament, told the “Res” news agency.
The parliamentarian has noted that many guys from South Ossetia are taking part in the special military operation, including volunteers and employees of the 4th Russian military base.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Akhsar Dzhioev commented on the situation with the Agreement with Russia on dual citizenship, which, among other things, regulates the issues of conscription of citizens for military service.
“The work in this direction is underway,” the Minister said.
It should be noted that residents of South Ossetia, who have citizenship of the Russian Federation and South Ossetia, began to be issued with conscription, at the customs point "Lower Zaramag" due to the partial mobilization announced in Russia.
On Wednesday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia reacted to the exercises "Caucasian Eagle - 2022" held in Georgia.
“On October 11, at the Mukhrovani military base near Tbilisi, the joint field tactical exercises “Caucasian Eagle-2022” of the special operations forces of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey started. The purpose of the exercises is "synchronization of capabilities and improvement of coordination, command and control" by the military personnel of the three countries," the official commentary of the Foreign Ministry says.
The artistic director of the South Ossetian State Ensemble "Simd" Sergey Kochiev told about participation in the forum of creative collectives "Multinational Russia", held in the capital of the Chechen Republic — Grozny from September 23 to 25.
“The impressions from the organization and scale of the event, of course, are great. There it was being discussed what national creative teams should do, touring activities, how creative teams should move forward, direction was discussed separately. Speakers at the Forum had vast experience in the area they were talking about.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia issued the official comment on the non-admission of representatives of the Republic of South Ossetia to participate in the OSCE Conference (HDIM) in Warsaw.