To the Regional Executive Committee. Report of the representative of the Communist Party Committee, member of the Commission for the Investigation of the Status of Refugees of South Ossetia, comrade Markarov. August 24, 1920
On February 14, 1992, a special police detachment was created in the war-torn South Ossetia. To be more precise, the detachment began to be formed several months before the date that entered the history of the Ossetian statehood. At that time, the entire law enforcement system in South Ossetia was in a difficult situation: the militia began to be disarmed, starting in 1991. The Soviet Union still existed, a system of linear subordination of bodies "union center - republican - autonomous region - city" was built with an unshakable rule of subordination to orders.
South Ossetia signed the first contract with Kazakhstan for the supply of wine at the largest international food exhibition "Prodexpo-2020" in Moscow, said on Thursday the head of the South Ossetian wine enterprise "Ironsaen Winery" Alexey Tsapaev.
Having heard the report of the Interior Minister on the question of transforming the township of Tskhinval, Gori district, Tiflis province, into a town with the introduction of a town status , and sharing the opinion of the Minister of Internal Affairs on this subject presented in the report, the Transcaucasian government recognized the need to satisfy the petition of residents of Tskhinval.
II. Transform the township of Tskhinval into a town with the introduction of a town status on the following grounds.
The information received by the State Security Committee of South Ossetia indicates that official Tbilisi, despite the growth of protest moods in Georgia itself, continues to implement a revanchist policy aimed at destabilizing the situation on the state border of South Ossetia with Georgia, the KGB press service reports.
Weapon volleys struck, bullets whistled, and Sandro Ketskhoveli fell to the ground as a lifeless corpse. George Machabeli gave orders to the guards who took positions. He stood openly in the middle of the street, waiting for any minute for help from Gori according to the agreed sign (this sign should have been a wire break), but the wires were broken and help did not come. He was losing hope. Then suddenly the red banner appeared, followed by the people.
<...> Having concluded peace with Azerbaijan in June this year, the Menshevik government sent all its forces to South Ossetia <...>
On the heights of Tskhinval, an unequal battle ensued, as a result of which the red rebels of South Ossetia, having spent their ammunition, having no food or assistance from anywhere, with their families under the pressure of superior enemy forces, were forced to withdraw the front and retreat to the Terek region.
Six gorges: Dzhava, Roksky, Kesheltskoe, Belotsky, Kornissky and Tsono-Kudarsky suffered a terrible defeat.
To former priest of the Kornis parish A. Kokoev. According to the decision of the Council of Peasant Deputies, you are considered to have been dismissed from January 1, 1918, and at the same time fined a thousand rubles for embezzlement of public money, and therefore again I ask, firstly, to release now the premises and, secondly, to hand over the fine to a policeman Sandro Tedeev. Otherwise, decisive and final measures will be taken for the non-receipt of money, and non-release of the premises.
Chairman of the Kornis Peasant Council V. Khasiev.
As a result of the uprising in South Ossetia, tens of thousands of refugees crossed the Main Caucasian Range and entered the Terek region, where they experience all kinds of disasters. The refugee movement was caused by the fact that the troops of the Georgian government, after the retreat of the red rebels, exterminated the civilian population and set fire to all villages.
