On March 11, 2022, Candidate of Historical Sciences, professor, senior researcher at the Z. Vaneev Research Institute, holder of the state award named after K. Khetagurov, head of the Department of History of Ossetia and Caucasian Studies of South Ossetian State University Yuriy Sergeevich Gagloity passed away.
During the working visit to Abkhazia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia D.N. Medoev met with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia A.Z. Ankvab.
During a working visit to Abkhazia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia D.N. Medoev visited the Abkhaz State University, where he met with rector A.A. Gvaramia.
Working visit of D. N. Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, to the Republic of Abkhazia started on March 10.
Currently, due to the suspension of air traffic with a number of foreign states, citizens of the Russian Federation temporarily staying in third countries are having difficulty returning to the Russian Federation by air. At the same time, foreign citizens transiting through the territory of the Russian Federation to their homeland face similar problem.
Tskhinval is closely monitoring the current situation in the Donbass in the light of the special military operation launched by the Russian Armed Forces on February 24 to protect the DPR and LPR, the purpose of which is to ensure the security of the republics, as well as protect the rights and interests of the population living there.
On February 24 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Dmitrii Medoev played host to the new Head of the ICRC Representative Office in the Republic of South Ossetia Dragoslav Blazhevich.
The Republic of South Ossetia expresses its support for the decision of the Russian Federation to conduct the special military operation to protect the residents of Donbass from current nationalist regime of Kiev.
On February 24, an enlarged format meeting of the Security Council of the Republic of South Ossetia, organized in connection with the situation in the Donbas and the special military operation announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, was held under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia A.I. Bibilov.
South Ossetia welcomes and expresses full solidarity with the decision of the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin on the recognition of state sovereignty and independence of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic.
South Ossetia welcomes the recognition of the sovereignty of the fraternal republics of Donbass. This is an important and responsible decision of the Russian leadership.
The statement of Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus, on the possibility that Minsk recognizes the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia did not gounnoticed in South Ossetia.
The statement of Belarusian President has reasonablegrounds, and it is not only the obvious established legal international situation related to the existence of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, which implies political obligations, including implementation of a coordinated foreign policy.
