South Ossetia and Russia will establish a consultation mechanism for direct contact on addressing the problems facing the Republic. This has been declared by the Russian President Vladimir Putin at a briefing in Sochi after the meeting with President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov.
A meeting of the parliamentary delegation of South Ossetia headed by the Acting Speaker of thelegislative body of South Ossetia Zurab Kokoev with the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin has been held in Moscow. During the meeting Naryshkin called for further strengthening of ties between the parliaments of both countries.
The delegation of South Ossetia headed by the President of the Republic Leonid Tibilov left for Sochi for participating in the South Ossetian-Russian summit talks.
As IA "Res" has been informed by the presidential administration of South Ossetia, the meeting will be held in Sochi on May 12 within the framework of the first working visit of the RSO President Leonid Tibilov to the Russian Federation.
It should be noted that the visit to Russia is the first foreign trip of Leonid Tibilov after becoming a president of South Ossetia.
The national team of South Ossetia went to Belarus to participate in the European indoor soccer championship. As IA "Res" has been reported by the head coach Eric Berezov, "the tournament will be attended by teams from Russia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Belarus, Catalonia, Latvia, Slovenia, Norway and South Ossetia."
He added that the South Ossetian team had included Ruslan Pukhaev, Aslan Tautiev, Yuri Bibilov, Kajakh Bestaev, Alan Khadikov, Soslan Gigolaev, Ruten Khamitsev, Arsen Tsidaev, Zaur Ikoev, Sergey Makeevich, Edward Kokoev and Soslan Dzhussoev.
The South Ossetian Company "Your aviation centre-South Ossetia" has acquired the first aircraft to be used for fire safety and rescue operations. As IA "Res" has been informed by the company CEO Georgy Valiev, "we got three-seater-rotary-wing aircraft ''Gyroplane Hunter-3''. It has already been delivered to the Republic. The device will be used to monitor the area for early detection of forest fires, tracking the population of wild animals, and in emergency cases it will be used in rescue operations". He said the company was planning to acquire two more aircrafts.