Chairman of the South Ossetian Parliament Alan Tadtayev strongly condemned Azerbaijan's revanchist actions against the Republic of Artsakh, the press service of the Republic’s legislative body reported.
The military actions unleashed in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic threaten the security of the region as a whole, the Speaker said.
Over the past day, 23 people have been tested for coronavirus in the laboratory of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, one of the tests showed a positive result, the head of the Committee Marina Kochieva told IA" Res". on Tuesday morning.
Since the opening of the border with Russia (September 15), about 150 tests have been carried out (in total for the entire period since April of this year, more than 5.3 thousand) for COVID-19.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia has expressed the most serious concern over the rapid escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"Of particular concern are the incoming reports about full-scale military actions waged by Azerbaijan with the use of heavy equipment, artillery and aviation, killed and wounded, including among the civilian population of Artsakh, destruction of civilian infrastructure, violations of international humanitarian law," the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Representatives from South Ossetia took part in the All-Russian youth educational Forum "Tavrida" 2020 in Crimea. As one of the participants, Sarmat Kotaev, told the IA "Res", the Forum lasted six days; four people from South Ossetia took part in it.
According to him,"Tavrida" is an opportunity for young cultural workers to learn more about their profession, improve their knowledge, and make new acquaintances.
On Friday South Ossetia handed over to Georgia a citizen previously convicted of illegally crossing the state border.
"In connection with the expiration of the sentence, Mgebrishvili Khvicha Avtandilovich, born 1973, resident of the village of Medzhvriskhevi, Gori municipality, was handed over to the Georgian side. He was detained on July 3, 2020 in the vicinity of the village of Adzysaer, Tskhinval district for violation of the state border regime of South Ossetia, "the KGB said on Friday.
The State Security Committee of South Ossetia has noted the positive dynamics in the change of the attitude of residents of the border Georgian villages, some non-governmental and international organizations to the issue of the state border between South Ossetia and Georgia, the KGB press service of the Republic reports.
“Since September 2019, the South Ossetian side has managed to draw the attention of the Georgian public to the unilateral process of demarcation of the state border line.
Employees of the Stavropol Anti-Plague Institute are providing practical and methodological assistance to their South Ossetian colleagues, - the head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee Marina Kochieva told the IA" Res ".
"Another group of specialists has been here for a week, helping us in terms of establishing laboratory work, as we are preparing for cases of an increase in the volume of research. Our specialists are already sufficiently trained, but there are certain nuances that we are bringing to mind," said the chief sanitary doctor.
Issues related to security on the border of South Ossetia with Georgia were discussed on Thursday at the meeting in the format of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM).
According to the head of the South Ossetian delegation to the IPRM Yegor Kochiev, the agenda included incidents that occurred in the border territories between South Ossetia and Georgia since the previous 96 meeting, held on July 30, issues of violation of the airspace of the South Ossetian Republic, the removal of the illegal Georgian post in the village of Uista.
South Ossetian Defense Minister Lieutenant General Ibragim Gasseev, on the invitation of Russian Defense Minister, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, will visit the final stage of the Kavkaz-2020 strategic command and staff exercise, which will be held at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region on September 25.
According to the press service of the Defense Ministry, a number of heads of defense departments of foreign states, as well as representatives of the military diplomatic corps, have been invited to the large-scale event.
Servicemen of the Defense Ministry of the Republic of Abkhazia as part of the command and cadets of the Sukhum Higher Combined Arms Command School have laid wreaths at the memorials of civilians and defenders of South Ossetia who died during the Georgian aggression.