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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected the claims of residents of South Ossetia for human rights violations by the Georgian military during the 2008 military conflict, following a politicized and biased approach, said the Commissioner for Human Rights of South Ossetia Inal Tasoev.

“Although we assumed that such a decision could be made, it was hoped that the European Court would set aside its politicized, biased and one-sided approach in considering the complaints of our citizens and make a fair decision.

South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev sent a note of condolences to Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Faisal al-Mikdad, in connection with the terrorist attack in Damascus.

"With sorrow I received the news of the tragedy - a terrorist act in the center of Damascus, which entailed numerous human casualties. I ask you to convey my words of sincere sympathy and support to the families and friends of the victims, and wishes for a speedy recovery to the victims," ​​the note with condolences reads.

South Ossetia will use every opportunity to protect the rights of its citizens and bring the truth about the events of 2008 to the world community, - said President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.

According to him, every application of the citizens of South Ossetia, submitted to the European Court of Human Rights, outlines the tragedy, the pain of losses, the suffering experienced, and the court has made a decision, rejected them, referring to strange, completely incomprehensible arguments.

South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev has received the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Foreign Ministry in the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) Radiona Pukhaev, who is on a business trip to Tskhinval.

According to the press service of the Foreign Ministry, during the conversation, they discussed some of the results of the representative's activities in recent years, outlined plans for the coming period, including those related to the implementation of various cultural projects.

Servicemen of the Defense Ministry of South Ossetia are carrying out active preparatory measures for a command-staff exercise in Abkhazia.

The idea of ​​the exercise provides for its holding in three stages, while the South Ossetian military personnel will be involved in the most important of them, during which combat training tasks will be worked out to perform various tactical tasks for conducting territorial defense with live fire, the press service of the Defense Ministry reported.

On Thursday the Russian State Duma has ratified the agreement with the Republic of South Ossetia, introduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the procedure for calculating length of service for the assigning monthly. bonus for contract servicemen and for establishing the amount of a monthly bonus for military pensioners.

A command-staff mobilization exercise is being held in Abkhazia, in which servicemen of the Defense Ministry of South Ossetia are taking part, the press service of the defense department reported.

An agreement on the participation of the RSO servicemen in the exercise was reached between the Commanders-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the states, Anatoly Bibilov and Aslan Bzhania.

Representatives of the organizations "Rossy" and "Union of Russian Citizens" headed by Svetlana Kotaeva, Chairman of the Coordinating Council of Russian Compatriots in South Ossetia, took part in the VII World Congress of Compatriots, held in Moscow on October 15-16.

As noted by Svetlana Kotayeva in her interview with the IA “Res”, delegates from 102 countries took part in the forum under the slogan “Russia and Compatriots in a Changing World”.

The situation with the incidence of COVID in South Ossetia is still unstable, the incidence is increasing in the republic, the head of South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee.Marina Kochieva said at the meeting of the operational staff in Tskhinval.

“For the period from October 1 to October 16, out of 4384 tests carried out, 31% are laboratory-confirmed cases of coronavirus. This suggests that there is an increase in the incidence of COVID-19,” said Kochieva.

The "big tour" of the Kosta Khetagurov South Ossetian State Drama Theater will take place on October 28 - November 3 in Yaroslavl, Lipetsk and Voronezh, the artistic director of the State Drama Theater Tamerlan Dzudtsov told the “Res” news agency.

According to him, the tour is organized by the Federal State Budgetary Organization Rosconcert in accordance with the All-Russian Touring and Concert Plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.