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Russian border guards started joint border protection on April 30, 2009, when an agreement was signed between Russia and South Ossetia on joint efforts to protect the state border. Since then, Russian border guards have been guarding the borders of South Ossetia together with their South Ossetian counterparts, together protecting peace and security in the Republic.

Saturday marks 13 years since the signing of the Agreement and 13 years since the establishment of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia in South Ossetia.

The Public Chamber of Russia hosted a videoconference “Massive Violation of the Rights of Russian Compatriots Abroad on the Grounds of Citizenship, Nationality and Language: How to Counteract This”.

The videoconference was attended by compatriots from all over the world - South Ossetia, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Abkhazia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and others.

Photos of 53 the Ossetian guys who died during the Russian special operation to defend Donbass will be carried in the "Immortal Regiment" in Tskhinval, Zhanna Zasseeva, Minister of Culture of South Ossetia, told the “Res” news agency.

This year, about 10,000 people will take part in the procession of the Immortal Regiment.

Refugees from the Donetsk People's Republic 11 out of 42 people who arrived in South Ossetia on February 26 are returning home on Friday.

"Accompanied by the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they left the Republic," the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

Refugees from Donbass were accommodated in comfortable rooms of the Victoria Hotel in Tskhinval. In an interview with journalists, they said that they were forced to leave the DPR, largely because of the children.

A batch of humanitarian aid sent by South Ossetia to residents of the DPR, LPR and servicemen participating in the special military operation was received by residents of Mariupol. The Tskhinval secondary school No. 2 took an active part in the collection.

Humanitarian aid was sent from the Republic at the end of March. Food and other necessary items were distributed in different directions.

For centuries, the inhabitants of South Ossetia have been fighting for their right to life in their native land. Thanks to the aggressive actions of their southern neighbors, the Ossetians know that hell exists on earth.

On April 28, 1991, the history of South Ossetia was replenished with another tragic date. Seven unarmed residents of the village of Tsinagar in Leningor district – Otar Margiev, Givi Bibilov, Slavik Chertkoev, Zaur Khubulov, Otar Khubulov, Tengiz Dudaev and Taimuraz Khubulov, defending their pastures from cattle rustling, were killed by the Georgian aggressors.

Residents of the village of Tsinagar, the leadership of South Ossetia and members of the public gathered on Thursday for a memorial meeting dedicated to the 31st anniversary of the Tsinagar tragedy.

Victory Day in South Ossetia will be celebrated with a military parade, the march of the Immortal Regiment column, actions, festive concerts and victorious fireworks. Minister of Culture of the Republic, Zhanna Zasseeva, in a commentary to the Res news agency, said that the festive events had already begun and would continue until the end of May.

The delegation of South Ossetia headed by Ambassador to Russia Znaur Gassiev, on the invitation of the Moscow government, took part in the round table "Interaction with compatriots abroad at the level of regions of the Russian Federation."

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks committed on the eve of a number of state facilities of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, which caused destruction.