South Ossetia sent humanitarian aid to the Rostov region of Russia, where is located the camp of refugees from the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Eric Pukhaev, the humanitarian aid consists of bedding, clothing, daily necessities, as well as mineral water.
The draft Treaty between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation of alliance and integration meets the interests of both countries. It will promote their closer integration, aiming at the development of South Ossetia, said the president of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov at the meeting with residents of Znaur district of the Republic.
The Treaty on the state border signed in Moscow between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation is the basic document defining the state border between the two countries along the whole length, said IA "Res" the Head of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-Parliamentary Relations Igor Kochiev.
On Monday in the Spanish town of Fuenlabrada took place the unveiling of the monument to the 1936 - 1939's Spanish Civil War participant, the Hero of the Soviet Union Haji Umar Mamsurov, a prototype of the hero of the famous novel by Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
The South Ossetian side has called on the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia to intensify the work on the preparation of the legally binding documents on the non-use of force by Georgia against South Ossetia and Abkhazia., told reporters Presidential Envoy of the RSO for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev after a meeting with the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions, arrived in Tskhinval to prepare for the next meeting in the Swiss capital.
The co-chairs of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia, arrived today in Tskhinval, have met with the families of the citizens of South Ossetia who are serving sentences on trumped-up charges in Georgia.
Opera singer, Honored Artist of the RSO and RSO- Alania, People's Artist of North Ossetia-Alania Veronika Dzhioeva (soprano), has been nominated for the Russian theater award "Golden Mask" in the prestigious nomination "Opera / Female role". According to Dzhioeva, she has been nominated for the "Golden Mask" for a second time.
In early February 2015 the Georgian media sources published that in one of the Georgian jails a group of prisoners had gone on hunger strike.
The information that citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia Giorgi Valiev, George Zaseev and Joseph Kochiev, illegally detained by law enforcement agencies of Georgia in 2005 and convicted on trumped-up charges to life imprisonment by the Georgian authorities, January 26 went on hunger strike, has caused great concern in South Ossetia.
Taking into account that the multi-day hunger strike, the fourth in recent years, can seriously affect their health, the Office of the Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy of the RSO for post-conflict settlement appealed to the EU Observer Mission in Georgia and the International Committee of the Red Cross with a request to inquire into the state of health of these citizens, and to inform the South Ossetian side.
South Ossetian party has constantly raised the question of the release of Valiev, Zasseev and Kochiev at the Geneva discussions, the MPRI meetings and other international forums with the participation of representatives of South Ossetia and Georgia.
South Ossetian side has repeatedly proposed to release the prisoners on a reciprocal basis, but there is not yet any understanding by the Georgian side in this humane gesture.
The development of the draft Treaty of alliance and integration between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation has reached the final stage. The document has already been agreed with the South Ossetian ministries and agencies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent it to the Russian Foreign Ministry for a similar procedure in the Russian Federation.
