Archive - 25/3/2011

20 years have passed! They will never be forgotten in Ossetia!
In March 24 1991 the Georgians attacked the ossetian village of Helchua. They were burning the houses, raping the women, did not spare even oldsters and children, many inhabitants of this village are hitherto considered missed in action.
There were the marks of cruel violence on the bodies of the murdered; many of them had been cut off their hands and legs. Amongst them was Nina Bestaeva, the chairman of the committee of the perished families, the missed in action and the wounded, Zarina Tedeeva is recollecting. Zarina herself had buried her husband then. He was among the victims of Eredskaya tragedy, who were brutally killed by the Georgian gunmen in March 18 of the same year.

The State Duma ratified two intergovernmental agreements with Abkhazia and South Ossetia about mutual visa-free trips of their citizens. The Agreement with Abkhazia is signed in October 2 2009 in Sukhum, but the Agreement with South Ossetia – in 1 February 2010 in Moscow. Both documents provide visa-free regime of trips of their citizens by the period about 90 days both with the foreign passport, and with the internal documents.

Today the plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela mister Ugo Jose Garsiya Ernandes will arrive in the Republic of South Ossetia with working visit.