The practice of using family doctors in South Ossetia will be useful in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, said Andreas Schiffman, a specialist in intensive care from Germany, who was invited to South Ossetia.
As part of the training of reservists of the first Tkurchal regiment, large-scale command-staff mobilization exercises of the Armed Forces were held at the Tsabal combined-arms training ground.
According to the Defense Ministry of Abkhazia, along with the Abkhaz military, Russian and South Ossetian military personnel took part in them.
In one of the private houses on Dachnaya Street in Tskhinval, a local resident discovered a shot from an RPG-7 (reusable hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher), the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia told the “Res” news agency.
The rescue department has noted that the sappers promptly went to the ground last Saturday, examined the adjacent territory of the find and took the shot for further destruction.
International conference “South Ossetia at the Crossroads of Civilizations. Problems of Security and Sustainable Development” is being held on Saturday in Tskhinval.
The event was organized by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic in cooperation with the Russian National Committee for the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (RNC BSEC).
The conference is attended by entrepreneurs, scientists, government officials.
South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev greeted those present, noting that some of the announced participants were absent for objective reasons.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected the claims of residents of South Ossetia for human rights violations by the Georgian military during the 2008 military conflict, following a politicized and biased approach, said the Commissioner for Human Rights of South Ossetia Inal Tasoev.
“Although we assumed that such a decision could be made, it was hoped that the European Court would set aside its politicized, biased and one-sided approach in considering the complaints of our citizens and make a fair decision.
South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev sent a note of condolences to Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Faisal al-Mikdad, in connection with the terrorist attack in Damascus.
"With sorrow I received the news of the tragedy - a terrorist act in the center of Damascus, which entailed numerous human casualties. I ask you to convey my words of sincere sympathy and support to the families and friends of the victims, and wishes for a speedy recovery to the victims," the note with condolences reads.
South Ossetia will use every opportunity to protect the rights of its citizens and bring the truth about the events of 2008 to the world community, - said President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.
According to him, every application of the citizens of South Ossetia, submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, outlines the tragedy, the pain of losses, the suffering experienced, and the court has made a decision, rejected them, referring to strange, completely incomprehensible arguments.
South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev has received the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Foreign Ministry in the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) Radiona Pukhaev, who is on a business trip to Tskhinval.
According to the press service of the Foreign Ministry, during the conversation, they discussed some of the results of the representative's activities in recent years, outlined plans for the coming period, including those related to the implementation of various cultural projects.
Servicemen of the Defense Ministry of South Ossetia are carrying out active preparatory measures for a command-staff exercise in Abkhazia.
The idea of the exercise provides for its holding in three stages, while the South Ossetian military personnel will be involved in the most important of them, during which combat training tasks will be worked out to perform various tactical tasks for conducting territorial defense with live fire, the press service of the Defense Ministry reported.
On Thursday the Russian State Duma has ratified the agreement with the Republic of South Ossetia, introduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the procedure for calculating length of service for the assigning monthly. bonus for contract servicemen and for establishing the amount of a monthly bonus for military pensioners.