Archive - 7/8/2020

Representatives of the public and the leadership of South Ossetia, headed by President Anatoly Bibilov, laid wreaths and flowers at the Poklonniy Cross at the shot barracks of Russian peacekeepers, which is located on the southern outskirts of Tskhinval - near the border with Georgia. On the night of August 7-8, the Russian peacekeepers were the first to receive the attack of the aggressor.

The action "Candles are crying for people", dedicated to the 12th anniversary of the Georgian armed aggression in August 2008, was held in Tskhinval. At the stand on the main square of the Republic's capital, 548 photographs were placed in memory of the victims of the genocide of the Ossetian people who died from 1989 to 2008.

The photo exhibition "Moments ... of Hell", dedicated to the next anniversary of Georgia's military aggression against South Ossetia, opened on Friday in the foyer of the Republican National Library.

The photographs show the tragic pages of our history, they were taken during the "five-day war" of August 2008.

To be in a dark basement again ...

Yuri Tigiev, 68, lived with his family in the village of Pris when the Georgian shelling began on 7 August 2008. Yuri fled to the city, where, in his opinion, it was safer. On the morning of August 8, Yuri, his wife and fellow villagers went down to the city through the Zguder forest. The family made their way into the house of Yuri's sister, Shura.