Boxers from South Ossetia performed well at the BRICS Games in Kazan, the athletes took two bronze medals.
According to the press service of the Committee on Youth Policy and Sports of the Republic of South Ossetia, the South Ossetian athlete Arsen Dzhioev was fighting in the 92+kg weight class.
A delegation of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry, headed by Minister Akhsar Dzhioev, took part in the events dedicated to the Day of National Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the genocide of the Belarusian people. This was reported by the press service of the Republic's foreign policy department.
In Tskhinval, on the Day of Memory and Sorrow, a commemorative event dedicated to the 83rd anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War was held on the Walk of Fame near the Eternal Flame.
The leadership of South Ossetia, headed by President Alan Gagloev, Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov, members of Parliament, the public, military personnel, residents and guests of the Republic came to pay tribute to the memory of those killed in the Great Patriotic War.
South Ossetia considers itself part of the Great Russian world; the Republic has the closest interaction in all areas with its strategic partner - the Russian Federation. This was stated by President Alan Gagloev during the meeting with the Chairman of the Board of the Russian Historical Society, Executive Director of the History of the Fatherland Foundation Ruslan Gagkuev.
The meeting took place as part of the opening of the Russian Historical Society representative office in Tskhinval, the press service of the head of state reports.
President of South Ossetia awarded Ambassador of the Republic to the Russian Federation Znaur Gassiev with the Order of Friendship, the press service of the head of state reports.
It was noted that the high award was presented to the diplomat for his merits in implementing the foreign policy of the Republic.
Gagloev met with the Ambassador as part of the opening of the representative office of the Russian Historical Society in Tskhinval.
The delegation of South Ossetia will take part in the events dedicated to the Day of National Remembrance of the victims of the Great Patriotic War and the genocide of the Belarusian people in Brest, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.
“On the night of June 22, at the memorial complex “Brest Hero Fortress” there will be a performance by the chamber orchestra of the Brest Regional Philharmonic “Music of Memory”, then a rally-requiem “In memory of the fallen - be worthy!”, – ceremony of laying flowers at the Eternal Flame.
President of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev laid flowers and wreaths at the monument to the 13 Communards at the Zguder cemetery.
South Ossetia on Thursday is remembering the victims of the 1920 genocide.
The funeral ceremony was also attended by the Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov, Prime Minister Konstantin Dzhussoev, Speaker of Parliament Alan Alborov, heads of the ministries and departments, deputies of the legislative body, the public of the Republic, and students.
Not only military personnel of the Georgian army and leaders of the Georgian state, but also the Georgian population of adjacent territories, resettled by the Georgian authorities to the Ossetian land, took an active part in the genocide and devastation of South Ossetia in the 20s of the last century. This is stated in the statement by President Alan Gagloev in connection with the 104th anniversary of the Ossetian genocide.
June 20, 1920 is a sad date in the history of South Ossetia and the entire Ossetian people.
The head of the official representation of South Ossetia in Transnistria, Vitaly Yankovsky, took part in the mourning memorial events dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the beginning of the aggression of the Republic of Moldova against the Pridnestrovian people, the press service of the representation reports.
Commemorative events dedicated to the 104th anniversary of the genocide of the Ossetian people will be held in South Ossetia on June 20.
As reported to IA “Res” by the Republican Commission for the preparation and holding of state-significant events, a flower-laying ceremony will take place at the monument to the 13 communards at the Zguder cemetery at 10.00.
They noted that a national minute of silence at 13.00 would honor the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Ossetian people.