South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov has received today the Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Nikolay Nikiforov, who arrived yesterday, August 13, in the Republic on a two-day working visit.
Delegation of representatives of the Presidential Administration and the Ministry of Health of Russia has arrived in South Ossetia on a working visit.
Today in the capital of South Ossetia in the Media Center "Ir" has taken place the signing of a cooperation agreement between the independent non-profit organization -"Academy of sociological analysis" and the South Ossetian Republican Public Organization "Iry Sombon." The document was signed by heads of the organizations - Alan Chochiev ("Academy of sociological analysis") and Vyacheslav Khoziev ("Iry Sombon").
The war in August 2008
On the night of August 11, Tskhinval was again being shelled, despite the fact that earlier the Georgian army had retreated to the administrative border with South Ossetia. That night the South Ossetian security forces captured 19 Georgian subversives.
The war in August 2008
August 10, 2008 Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin arrived in the North Ossetian capital Vladikavkaz, where he held a meeting to coordinate assistance to the refugees from South Ossetia.
"What is happening in South Ossetia - is the genocide of the Ossetian people, and legally Russia's actions in South Ossetia are fully justified", - Putin said.
The Russian Prime Minister described the situation in South Ossetia as the "humanitarian catastrophe."
Statement of KGB of South Ossetia:
August 10, 2013 at 10: 45 near the settlement of Artseu in Tskhinval district, in sight of the European Union observers, the Georgian Interior Ministry police car crossed the state border and penetrated into the territory of South Ossetia.
The war in August 2008
At about the midnight of August 9 there fell temporary lull in Tskhinval. As declared by the commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces Marat Kulakhmetov, the parties were preparing for the upcoming fighting at night.
At 1:15 the Chairman of the Committee for Information and Press of South Ossetia Irina Gagloeva reported that the Georgian troops had been completely ousted from the South Ossetian capital Tskhinval.
This year, the mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia continued to provide social and economic assistance, both to human settlements and families. As the news agency "Res" was informed at the press service of the ICRC, from January to June 2013, the organization had transported 102 gravely sick patients to the health clinics in Georgia.
The war in August 2008
August 8 at 01:30 Georgia officially declared war on South Ossetia. Georgian officials announced that Georgia "in response to provocations" had launched a military operation to "establish constitutional control" over the territory "of the Tskhinvali region of Georgia."
The grand opening ceremony of the photo exhibition of the publicist, a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia Natalia Batraeva "Kosovo-South Ossetia: A look from within" has taken place today in Tskhinval.
The exhibition includes the works made by the author in 2005 - 2013 in Kosovo and in South Ossetia.