Republic of South Ossetia is located оn the southern slopes of the Main Caucasus Range in the area of 3900 square meters. Тhe capital is the city of Tskhinval.
One-tenth of the surface occupied by the Republic of the foothills.
The rest of the territory - the mountainous terrain height from 850 to 3938 meters above sea level.
The highest point - Mount Halatsa (3938 m).

Archive - Jan 2013

January 31st

Comments of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. David Sanakoev

In respect of the speech of M. Saakashvili at winter session of PACE

The speech of the President Saakashvili was at the session of Parliamentary Assembly was of course tendentious and biased to South Ossetia and Russian Federation. We have not heard anything new from the president of Georgia. He had the same rhetorics as before, which is also followed by the Government of Georgia for many years and the culmination of which was the military aggression in August 2008.

Announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia

On 22 January Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia received the Head of Tskhinval Office of the International Committee of Red Crossof Ms. Leanna Hutchins.


During the meeting were discussed activities of ICRC, in particular, projects planed by the organization for 2013.
The Head of MFA had positively appraised the work of ICRC for the last year and wished for further fruitful cooperation.


Tskhinval, 22 January 2013

Comments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia

On the report made by Swedish parliamentarian Ms. Tina Acketoft

On 21 January 2013 winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was opened. On 23 January Swedish parliamentarian Ms. Tina Aketoft made a report “Georgia and Russia: humanitarian situation in the conflict and war affected areas”.

January 30th

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia

On the resolution adopted by PACE, based on the report of Ms. Tina Acketoft

On 23 January at the winter session of PACE a final resolution was adopted. The resolution was based on the report of Tina Aketoft “Georgia and Russia: humanitarian situation in the conflict and war affected areas”. The resolution raises a number of serious questions in South Ossetia.

January 28th