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South Ossetia should talk about the recognition of genocide at all levels and declare it at all venues,” said Robert Gagloyty, Director of the South Ossetian Research Institute.

These days, the Republic is holding commemorative events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the genocide of the South Ossetian people committed by Georgia. June 20, 1920 13 communards were shot.

The Parliament of the Republic of Abkhazia adopted a statement supporting the appeal of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry to the governments of the world over the 100th anniversary of the Ossetian genocide, the official website says.

In South Ossetia over the past day 66 tests were conducted for coronavirus, one of them showed a positive result - a cadet who had returned home from Russia, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy Head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA "Res» on Tuesday.

According to Gagloeva, another five people recovered from the coronavirus and were discharged from the hospital. In total, there were 84 cases for the entire period, of which 50 people recovered and were discharged from the medical facility.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the genocide of the Ossetian people, the Official Representation of the Republic of South Ossetia in Transnistria, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Transnistria, held a memory action.

There are 181 people under observation in South Ossetia, no new cases of coronavirus have been detected, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy Head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA "Res» on Monday.

"According to data on the morning of June 22, 38 people with laboratory-confirmed coronavirus are being treated at the Tskhinval infectious diseases hospital, of which 37 are cadets and one from the medical staff. In total, 83 were ill for the entire period, 45 of them recovered and were discharged from the medical institution," - said Gagloeva.

The genocide of 1920, carried out by Georgia, is one of the gravest crimes against the Ossetian people, head of the Department of history of Ossetia and Caucasian studies of the South Ossetia State University, Candidate of History, Professor Yuri Gagloty said in a comment to IA "RES".

“The whole tragedy of these events lies in the fact that the Georgian professional mobilized army with officers who had been trained in the Russian imperial army were practically fighting against the unarmed Ossetian people,” the historian said.

Commemorative events took place on Saturday in the various cities of Italy, as well as in the Republic of San Marino on the Apennines, on the occasion of the centenary of the Ossetian genocide committed by Georgian forces in South Ossetia.

Ossetians living in Holland and Belgium honored with a minute of silence the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Ossetian people in 1920. Turning to compatriots by video link, Ossetians living in Europe joined the nationwide minute of silence.

People of Ossetia! Brothers and sisters!
Today in Ossetia is the anniversary of mournful memory, the memory of one of the most tragic pages in the history of Ossetians - the genocide committed by Georgia in 1920. The victims of genocide then became tens of thousands of people - children, women, old people; South Ossetia lost a third of the Ossetian population.

A thousand balloons by the number of genocide victims from Georgia were launched in all areas and the capital of South Ossetia. In memory of the victims of the genocide, balloons were launched at 944, 8 at the strategically important South Ossetian border post in the village of Uista (Tsnelis), as well as around the entire border.

In the capital of the Republic - Tskhinval, the rally was held by employees and activists of the Committee on Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism of South Ossetia.