Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia on Monday reported on 41 violators of the state border of the Republic in a month.

"In March 2020, 41 violators of established legal regimes were detained at various sections of the state border of South Ossetia (38 in February), of which 5 were violators of the state border regime and 36 were violators of the border regime," the KGB notes.

The Border Service of the State Security Committee of the Republic on each fact of violation of legal regimes conducted proceedings.

On Sunday, Orthodox believers are celebrating the Entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem, known as Palm Sunday. This year, due to the threat of coronavirus infection, the holiday services will be held with a minimal number of parishioners. The church recommended the parishioners to refrain from visiting churches on pre-Easter and Easter days until the restrictions imposed by the authorities are lifted. Festive services in all the churches of Ossetia will be held on Sunday.

The number of citizens in South Ossetia who are self-insulated at home and in the hospital per day has decreased. According to data on April 11, 438 people remain on self-isolation at home, said Anna Gagloeva, the Republic’s Deputy sanitary doctor, to IA “Res”.

"Three people are still under the supervision of medical workers in hospitals, two of them are in the capital and one is in the Znaur hospital. Another one was discharged from the Tskhinvali hospital the day before, " Gagloeva said.

The operational headquarters of South Ossetia for countering coronavirus infection will develop conditions for quarantine at the hospital for those citizens of the Republic who are outside and want to come home. In particular, at a meeting of the staff on Friday, April 10, chief sanitary doctor Marina Kochieva proposed to organize hospital wards under quarantine with the provision of food, hygiene items and free Internet to all citizens who are going to come to South Ossetia from Russia.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia posted on the official website of the department the information for citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia returning from their business trips, private trips, as well as students of Russian universities entering the country on vacation.

Despite the current restrictions related to measures to counteract the spread of coronavirus infection and repeatedly provided information about the possible negative consequences if it penetrates the territory of the Republic, the KGB of South Ossetia records an increase in smuggling activities across the state border with Georgia.

Crossing the border of the Republic through the checkpoint "Ruck" will be carried out only from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The government of South Ossetia, in order to ensure the sanitary-epidemiological situation in the Republic, adopted on Friday a new resolution to restrict the passage through the border with Russia from 00:00 April 13 to 23.59 May 1. Crossing the border of the Republic through the checkpoint "Ruck" will be carried out only from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The meeting is chaired by President Anatoly Bibilov.

In South Ossetia, the number of citizens who are self-isolated at home and in hospital has decreased. According to the data on the morning of April 10, the number of citizens on self-isolation at home is 449, said Anna Gagloeva, the Republic's Deputy sanitary doctor, to IA “Res”.

“Four people remain under the supervision of medical workers in hospitals of Tskhinval , three of them in the isolation ward, one in the Znaur district hospital,” Gagloeva said.

April 1 at 21.00 on the channel https://www.youtube.com/c/dastheaterkiel will be broadcast the opera "Aida" by Verdi in the production of the Kiel Theater (Germany). The main part is performed by the People's Artist of South and North Ossetia, Honored Artist of Russia Veronika Dzhioeva, which experts call the best Aida of the modern opera scene.

The world's leading opera houses during the pandemic broadcast performances on the Internet, the illustrious opera singer said in a commentary to IA “Res.”

A hundred years have passed since the genocide unleashed by Georgia against the Ossetians in 1920. Witnesses of those terrible events are not alive, but their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren remember well the stories of the elders, who had to experience the whole horror of the Georgian fascism, which originated in those distant years. And to be more precise - Georgian Nazism has deeper historical roots.