Archive - 2021

At the next round of the Geneva discussions, the South Ossetian party will again raise the issue of the non-use of force and will seek important steps in this direction,” said Presidential Envoy, head of the South Ossetian delegation at the discussions, Murat Dzhioev.

According to him, the signing of a legally binding document on the non-use of force between South Ossetia and Georgia, Abkhazia and Georgia is remaining important, but the non-constructive position of the Georgian delegation hinders progress in this direction.

The South Ossetian party at the meeting with the co-chairs of the Geneva Discussions stated that the solution of security problems should begin with work to ensure the security of border areas - from the Tsnelis region, where at the end of August 2019 the Georgian side had illegally set up a police post on the territory of South Ossetia. This was announced by the Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev at the briefing following the visit of foreign diplomats.

South Ossetia attaches great importance to the Geneva discussions in in ensuring the security and stability of the people of the Republic, and links lasting peace and security in the region as a whole with the Geneva process,” said Murat Dzhioev, the Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement, at the meeting with diplomats.

The border authorities of South Ossetia detained and expelled back a citizen of Georgia who violated the state border, the press service of the State Security Committee reported on Monday.

"On February 26, in the evening, in the vicinity of the village of Orchosan, Leningor district of the RSO, the border authorities of the Republic detained a citizen of Georgia Amiran Mantashashvili, born in 1992, a resident of Tbilisi, who had illegally crossed into the territory of South Ossetiao.

In South Ossetia, extreme surprise was caused by the speech of the leader of the "Essence of Time" movement Sergei Kurginyan, aired on the Russian TV channel "Russia 1" on February 25 on the air of the talk show "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov", which contained incorrect and inadmissible formulations of a dubious nature about South Ossetia with a mention of the public authority - the leadership of the Presidential Executive Office of South Ossetia. This is stated in the commentary of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic to the news agency "Res".

The number of people infected with the new coronavirus in South Ossetia on the last day of the working week was 13, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, said on Monday.

"On February 26, 167 tests were carried out in the Republic, of which 13 were positive. Thus, the total number of cases of coronavirus in the Republic increased to 3046," Gagloeva said.

In Tskhinval, a protocol was signed on amending the Agreement between the government of the Donetsk People's Republic and the government of the Republic of South Ossetia on the mutual recognition of education. The agreement provides for expanding cooperation in the field of education and science of the two countries.

The number of detected cases of coronavirus infection COVID-19 in South Ossetia increased by 7 in a day, 6 more recovered, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, said on Friday.

"In the \Republic, as of February 26, 2021, 3,033 cases of coronavirus disease COVID-19 were recorded. Over the past day, 123 tests were carried out, 7 of them showed a positive result," Gagloeva said.

According to her, for the entire time of the pandemic, 18,243 tests were carried out, 2,155 people were discharged from hospitals, more than 60 died.

The state media of South Ossetia on the pages of their publications, on television and radio, on Internet resources and social networks, transmitted, published reports, eyewitness stories, archival materials throughout 2020, declared in the Republic as the Year of Remembrance of the genocide of the Ossetian people carried out by Georgia. This was announced by Maya Kharebova, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Information and Press, at the reporting meeting following the results of the department's activities.

The Tbilisi regime, using the capabilities of its special services, is trying to neutralize the activities of independent media and civil society activists monitoring the situation along the state border line between South Ossetia and Georgia, the State Security Committee of South Ossetia said on Thursday.