Archive - 1/4/2021

South Ossetia and Crimea discussed issues of economic cooperation development via video link.

On March 3, a border guard in the vicinity of the Khelchua settlement in Tskhinval district of South Ossetia detained a citizen of Georgia Ramaz Begeluri, born in 1984, a resident of the village. of Gugutiantkari, Gori municipality.

As reported by the South Ossetian Security Committee, “on March 31, 2021 R. G. Begeluri was returned guilty by the Tskhinval District Court, of committing a crime under Art. 322 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal crossing of the State Border" and sentenced to one year of imprisonment conditionally.

At the last round of Geneva discussions, the South Ossetian delegation rejected accusations against South Ossetia of human rights violations, in particular, accusations that residents of the Georgian nationality do not have the right to study in their native language,” Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy Murat Dzhioev said at the press conference in Tskhinval.

“This information is absolutely false, and we have noted that there are schools in South Ossetia where the education is in the Georgian language,” he explained.

In middle XVIII Ossetia (Alania) was an independent country - a confederation of self-governed states.

There existed two kingdoms on territory of current Georgia – the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and the Kingdom of Imereti, and three princedoms – Guria, Mingrelia and Svanetia. At different extents they depended of Turkey and Iran.

1774 - Voluntary entrance of the united Ossetia into the Russian State;

1782 - Erekle II, the king of Kartli-Kakheti, asked the Russian Empress Catherine II to accept his kingdom under the protection of the Russian Empire;