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Sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia left on Monday morning to neutralize a shell found on one of the streets of Tskhinval, the press service of the Emergency Situations Ministry told the IA “Res”.

“A 30 mm BMP-2 projectile was found on Nartovskaya Street in the capital of the Republic. The Ministry of Emergency Situations received a call from a traffic police officer at 09.56,” the press service said.

The sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations left for the place. The ammunition was defused.

On Sunday afternoon, a resident of Tskhinval discovered a dangerous find and reported it to the rescuers, Vazha Dzagoev, the head of the Emergency Situations Ministry's duty shift, told the IA “Res”.

“A woman living on Lenin Street, 130, reported to the emergency department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations that she had found a grenade at the entrance of the storeroom while cleaning. We immediately sent sappers there and upon arrival it turned out that it was an F-1 combat grenade,” Dzagoev said.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko met with the heads of the South Ossetian and Abkhaz delegations at the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia - State Adviser to President of South Ossetia Konstantin Kochiev and Deputy Foreign Minister of Abkhazia Irakli Tuzhba.

South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev met with the Chairman of the Turkish Ossetian Society "Alan" Sadrettin Kusaty and the activists of the organization, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reported.

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.