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President Anatoly Bibilov met with Russian rock singer Yulia Chicherina, who arrived in Tskhinval on the invitation of the head of the South Ossetian state, the presidential press service said.

The concert of the singer will take place on Tuesday at the Kosta Khetagurov.State Drama Theater.

The meeting was also attended by a participant in the Donbass war, Hero of the DPR Ahra Avidzba and military commander Semyon Pegov, who is the author of the patriotic song “Volunteer”.

Boxers from South Ossetia Georgy Kabisov, Dmitry Bagaev and Yan Yaralov won the Golden Gloves International Tournament by winning gold medals, the Committee on Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism of the Republic reports.

The International Boxing Tournament dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the founding of the Donetsk Golden Gloves boxing sports club has ended in the Donetsk People’s Republic..

Defender of the Fatherland Day and the 27th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of South Ossetia were marked by a solemn meeting. The event began with the screening of a documentary about the history of the creation of the South Ossetian military department and its tasks to date.

Over the years of its existence, the Armed Forces of South Ossetia have turned into a cohesive organism, ready to solve the tasks of ensuring the defense and security of the Republic, said Beslan Zvizhba, First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Abkhazia, at a solemn meeting dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day and the Day of Formation of the Armed Forces of South Ossetia.

The delegation of the Ministry of Defense of Abkhazia is participating in the festive events in the Republic.

President Anatoly Bibilov presented state awards-medals "To the Defender of the Fatherland" - to the defenders of the Republic of South Ossetia, who defended the integrity and independence of the Motherland from 1989 to 2008, the press service of the head of state reports.

The award ceremony was dedicated to the celebration of Defender of the Fatherland Day.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov received a delegation of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Abkhazia led by First Deputy Minister of Defense of Abkhazia Beslan Tsvizhba. According to the press service of the President, representatives of the defense department of Abkhazia arrived in Tskhinval to participate in celebrations dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day.

The meeting was also attended by Minister of Defense of South Ossetia Ibrahim Gasseev and Ambassador Extraordinary of the Republic of Abkhazia to South Ossetia Alan Elbakiev.

The famous Ossetian boxer Murat Gassiev postponed his debut fight in the USA. This, according to the newspaper "Slovo", on his page said an insider from ESPN Steve Kim.

“I have been told that Murat Gassiev will not perform on February 29th in a boxing evening card in Frisco, Texas. He had some problems finding sparring partners, so he had to postpone his heavyweight debut again,” Kim wrote.

The Donetsk People’s Republic will host an international boxing tournament dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the creation of the Donetsk Golden Gloves boxing sports club. South Ossetian athletes will also take part in the competition. As the Deputy Director of the boxing school Irbeg Kokoev has noted in a commentary to the Res agency, five boxers will go to the competition.

The head of the Lugansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik held a working meeting with the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov who arrived in Lugansk, reports LuganskInformCentre.

“We are pleased to welcome you to our land. Very warm and friendly relations have developed between our republics,” Pasechnik addressed the leader of South Ossetia.

In turn, Bibilov noted that he had arrived on a working visit to his good friend. -head of the LPR,

A rally dedicated to the 31st anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan was held in Tskhinval in front of a monument to internationalist soldiers in the Bam microdistrict. Participants in the event laid flowers and wreaths at the memorial, honoring the memory of the Afghans who did not return from the battlefield.

Murat Guchmazov, a Chairman of the Union of Afghanistan Veterans, noted that "the Afghan war lasted for almost 10 years, through which more than 620 thousand soldiers and officers went through, of which 15 thousand did not return home."