Archive - 2021

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia reported that a Georgian citizen detained on December 1 in the locality of Vanel Dzau district by the officers of the stationary traffic police post was expelled from the Republic.

"It has been established that the offender Dzhanelidze Malkhaz Olegovich, born in 1974, a resident of Telavi, deliberately crossed the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia with Georgia in the vicinity of the settlement of Ergnet," the KGB press service clarified.

In Moscow, President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov met with the Ombudsman for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova, the press service of the head of state reported.

The meeting was attended by the Presidential Commissioner of the Republic of South Ossetia for Human Rights Inal Tasoev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation Znaur Gassiev.

The information agency "Res" appeared on the information field of the Republic on December 2, 1995. Under the conditions of the information blockade during the years of the struggle for independence, it was the voice of "Res" that reported information about what was happening outside South Ossetia. The agency was included in the structure of the Ministry of Information, Press, Publishing and Book Trade (now - the Committee for Information and Press of the RSO).

During a working visit to the Republic of Turkey, Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev met with the family and friends of the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in Turkey, Remzi Kanukati, who had died in December 2020 in Istanbul. This was reported by the press service of the Republic's Foreign Ministry.

Dmitry Medoev conveyed to the family of the deceased the words of condolences from the leadership of the Republic of South Ossetia and the staff of the Ministry.

A 47-year-old resident of Tbilisi was detained by officers of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia at the stationary traffic police post in the village of Vanel, Dzau District.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the man was on foot and did not have any documents with him. He explained that he had illegally crossed the border near the village of Ergneti. The citizen of Georgia was handed over to the Border Guard Service of the KGB of the Republic of South Ossetia.

South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev arrived in Istanbul on November 30 on the invitation of the leadership of the Ossetian community of Turkey, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reported.

During the visit, a number of meetings are planned, including with the leadership and activists of the Ossetian community in Turkey.

The meeting will touch upon the issues of cultural and humanitarian cooperation. The visit will last until December 3.

The Agreement between South Ossetia and the Russian Federation on the settlement of issues of dual citizenship will enter into force on the date of the exchange of instruments of ratification, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RSO reported.

"The Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia has ratified the Agreement between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation on the settlement of the issues of dual citizenship, introduced by President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov," the Foreign Ministry said.

Another explosive find was found in the western part of the capital of South Ossetia, said Garik Kharebov, head of the explosive ordnance department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of South Ossetia.

President of the Republic of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov and Chairman of the Gazprom Management Board Alexei Miller met in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, the press service of the head of state reported.

"The meeting discussed the progress and prospects of cooperation. In particular, they discussed the implementation of the Agreement" On the terms of purchase and sale of shares and further activities of Gazprom open joint stock company - South Ossetia and the gasification of settlements of the Republic «, - the press service informs.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed the hope that the current regime in Kiev will not follow the path of the ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili "of the 2008 model."

"I hope that even the current Kiev regime will not follow the path of Mikhail Saakashvili of the 2008 model," the head of the diplomatic department said at the press conference on Tuesday.