It is still difficult to comment on the ECHR ruling on Georgia's claim, since the judicial act was adopted only yesterday, and the reasoning part contains about three hundred pages, which requires careful study and analysis, said Inal Tasoev, Ombudsman for Human Rights under the President of South Ossetia.
Apparently, the European Court of Human Rights had to make an incredible effort to admit the obvious - that it was the Georgian troops who started the hostilities against South Ossetia in August 2008, and Russia was able to take decisive action to force the aggressor to peace, only after a lapse of days necessary for the urgent transfer of forces and means, said President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.
The “red line” has long been drawn in the minds of Georgian politicians by Georgia’s “European and non-European partners”, said Acting. Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev, commenting on the recent statement of the Georgian diplomat on the delimitation and demarcation of the state border with the Russian Federation.
On December 9, 1990, the first elections to the Supreme Soviet of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic were held in South Ossetia. The deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of the 1st convocation, the Chairman of the Parliament of the 3rd and 5th convocations, the leader of the Communist Party Stanislav Kochiev in his comments to the "Res" news agency has noted that they were held in a free, democratic atmosphere, although a certain tension in the socio-political situation was already felt then.
South Ossetia strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the sovereign territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said the acting. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Dmitry Medoev.
An extremely difficult situation has recently developed in South Ossetia due to the spread of coronavirus infection. The total number of infected has exceeded a thousand people, and the situation continues to deteriorate. Most of the sick are treated on an outpatient basis. Only the most seriously ill are in hospitals.
In response to the request of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Russian Federation sent its military hospital here; in addition, doctors from St. Petersburg and Voronezh arrived to help their South Ossetian colleagues.
There are no representatives of the Ossetian diaspora among the victims of the earthquake in Turkey, Ramzi Kanukov, the authorized representative of South Ossetia in Turkey, told IA "Res".
“The earthquake was strong; the city of Izmir was badly damaged. There were people among the rubble, a large number of people were injured, and there are also victims. As far as we know, there are no Ossetians among the victims of the earthquake,” Kanukov said.
The opening of a trade mission of South Ossetia in Moscow will give an additional impetus to relations between the two countries in the field of trade and economic cooperation, said the Acting Prime Minister Gennady Bekoev.
"The Russian Federation is the main strategic partner of South Ossetia, with which we have established long-term and strong cultural and humanitarian ties, and interstate trade is developing," Bekoev told reporters, commenting on the opening of a trade mission in Russia.
Due to the current restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic, the delegation of South Ossetia is ready to work online, said Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia, head of the South Ossetian delegation, Murat Dzhioev.
As noted by the Plenipotentiary, the South Ossetian side expressed its readiness for constructive work within the framework of the Geneva discussions, "taking into account all the opportunities of this year."
Memorable events of recent history hardly give Georgia the right to mediate in the settlement of the conflict between neighbors, said Elena Panina, a member of the State Duma's International Affairs Committee.
Earlier, President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili made a proposal that the republic could become a mediator in the Karabakh conflict and hold a meeting of the OSCE Minsk Group in Tbilisi.
