Archive - 8/2018

The leaders of South Ossetia and Russia will hold talks in Moscow during the visit of the RSO President Anatoly Bibilov to the Russian Federation, which will be held from August 23 to 25. According to the press service of the head of state, during the meeting, Putin and Bibilov will discuss priority issues of bilateral cooperation, as well as sum up the results of 10 years that have passed since the recognition of South Ossetia's independence by the Russian Federation.

The sending of a lawsuit against Russia by the Georgian authorities to the European court of human rights once again shows their inability and persistent unwillingness to adequately perceive the long-established geopolitical realities in the region, said South Ossetian Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov has received the head of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology Alexei Abramov.

The head of state has expressed confidence that the interaction between the standardization and metrology structures of the Russian Federation and South Ossetia will be further strengthened.

The all-Ossetian non-governmental organization "Styr Nykhas" will prepare an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the genocide of the Ossetian people in the 1920s, told the news Agency "RES" the First Deputy Chairman of the public organization "Styr Nykhas" of the Republic of South Ossetia of the international movement "Iry Styr Nykhas " Alvery (Sergey) Kochiev.
According to him, the appeal will be prepared by the participants of the 10th jubilee congress of the All-Ossetian organization, which will be held in Tskhinval on August 25.

The leading parties of South Ossetia and Syria will hold consultations on topical issues on the bilateral and international agenda, as well as to exchange delegations, told the Res news agency the leader of the party "United Russia" Alan Tadtaev.
According to him, the development of the Syrian-South Ossetian inter-party cooperation became possible after the signing of the agreement between the "United Ossetia" and the Party of Arab Socialist Revival (BAATH).
Tadtaev has stressed that the South Ossetian party intends to actively use the opening perspectives.

Memorable events dedicated to the tenth anniversary of Georgia's military aggression against South Ossetia in August 2008 were held in the embassies of the Republic in Moscow, Sukhum and Tiraspol.

Yesterday, in the Georgian embassy, the London police detained a British journalist and blogger Graham Phillips for a protest and ​ confiscated the footage and two cameras, Tass reports.
It should be noted that yesterday in the Georgian diplomatic mission in the UK was organized photo exhibition to mark the 10th anniversary of the August events. Graham Phillips, who came to the exhibition, called those preset "fascists" and "NATO zombies", also accusing Georgian journalists and diplomats of misinforming the British public.

The official delegation from Syria will take part for the first time in solemn events on the occasion of the recognition of the independence of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation, said in an interview with Izvestia the Chairman of the Parliament of the RSO Peter Gassiev.
According to Gassiev, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is planning to personally visit the Republic, but his visit, most likely, will not be timed to any event.

The decade of the August 2008 events and the recognition of the independence of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation caused a surge of interest in the Republic from the Western media.
To highlight commemorative events dedicated to the August 8, 2008war, representatives of about two dozen mass media of Russia and foreign countries got accreditation in the information department of South Ossetia.

The action "Memory is needed to those alive ..." was held in Tskhinval at the Gergiev stairs, where gathered representatives of the Republic's leadership headed by the President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov, members of Parliament and Government, guests of the Republic, representatives of the public.
The head of state Anatoly Bibilov, has reminded that just 10 years ago, a war criminal President of the Republic of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, assured the residents of South Ossetia of their peaceful intentions.