Contents tagged with South Ossetia
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Transnistria protests Chisinau’s deportation of Russian delegation
Diplomats of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic accused the Moldovan authorities of deporting delegation members from Russia and South Ossetia who were traveling to Transnistria, as reported on the official site of the Transnistrian Foreign Ministry.
“The actions of the representatives of the Republic of Moldova are evidence of yet another cycle of Chișinău’s use of mechanisms to filter foreign guests heading for Transnistria,” the statement reads.
According to the …
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South Ossetia transfers its schools to Russian language
Beginning from the new academic year, Georgian schools in South Ossetia, the territory that declared independence from Georgia in 1991, are shifting to the Russian educational program and will teach courses using the Russian language. The Georgian language will be taught to schoolchildren only as a particular subject, BBC News reports.
The affected Georgian schools, most of which are located in the Akhalgori district, were formerly controlled by Tbilisi before the 2008 war.
The authorities of …
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Protests were held in Tbilisi against Russia’s changes to South Ossetian border
On Saturday July 8th, by the State Chancellery of Georgia’s offices, there was a protest against the installation by the Russian border service of a de facto border of the self-proclaimed South Ossetia, as reported by Georgia Online.
"Activists of the youth wing of the European Georgia party demanded an end to the ongoing creation of borders in Georgian territories and are outraged by the authorities' inaction," the statement said.
Protesters carried barbed wire ahead of them as a symbol of …
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Russia begins large-scale military exercise in South Ossetia
Divisions of the Russian 58th Combined-Arms Army started command and staff exercises in the territory of South Ossetia, as announced by Vadim Astafyev, spokesperson for the Southern Military District, TASS reports.
“Military personnel are working on the actions of divisions during an air raid of an imaginary enemy, overcoming contaminated sections of terrain under conditions of weapons of mass destruction and radioelectric suppression being used by an enemy,” Astafyev explained.
The drills …
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Russia integrates South Ossetian army into the Russian military
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu and South Ossetian representative Ibrahim Gasseev signed an "interstate" agreement on the order of intergartion of separate divisions of the South Ossetian Republic army into the structure of the Russian Armed Forces.
"We, as before, consider cooperation between Russia and South Ossetia as one of the stabilizing factors in the Caucasus. In general, we are connected by long-standing relations," Shoygu said at the signing ceremony.
He recalled that Russia …
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UN Security Council began to discuss the situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia
The UN Security Council has begun to discuss the continuing aggravation of the situation in Georgia, primarily in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as a result of Russia’s provocative actions. The talks were initiated by Ukraine at Georgia’s request on March 28.
Volodymyr Yelchenko, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations reported the matter as part of exclusive commentary to LB.ua.
The Ukrainian delegation drew the Security Council’s attention to the so-called "Parliamentary …
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Russian government agrees to integrate some South Ossetia military units into the structure of the Russian Armed Forces
The Russian Government will present the draft agreement on the entry procedure of South Ossetia military units into the structure of the Russian Armed Forces to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. The corresponding document was published on the government’s official website.
“In this agreement, the entry of units into the structure of the Russian Armed Forces allows for the recruitment of citizens for military service in the Russian Armed Forces under contract, where they …
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NATO urged Russia to withdraw its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent regions
RIA Novosti reported that the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, General Petr Pavel urged Russia to "withdraw recognition" of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
"We call on Russia to withdraw its recognition of independence of the two regions and to express respect for Georgian borders," InterpressNews news agency quotes him as saying after the meeting with Georgian Defense Minister Levan Izoria.
Pavel also believes that Russia should be involved in safeguarding the security of the Black Sea. " …
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Georgian PM predicts Russia will abandon recognition of Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence
The Georgian Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Relations with Russia, Zurab Abashidze, believes that sooner or later Russia will withdraw its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.
"I believe that it is possible, and it will be so in the end. I do not know whether it will happen this year or in five years, but I'm sure that it will happen sooner or later," Abashidze said in an interview with Tbilisi television company Starvision.
According to the Special Envoy, "it ( …
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Georgian lawyers refuse to work with Yandex because the service's maps show an independent Abkhazia
In Georgia, lawyers refused to serve the Russian internet services company Yandex, because they use maps that list Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries. Former Press Secretary of the Embassy of Georgia in Ukraine, Bacho Korchilava, wrote about this on his page in Facebook.
"The emergence of Yandex was immediately marked by a scandal, as the maps of Abkhazia and South Ossetia listed them as independent countries. Then, of course, all legal and governmental mechanisms started to …