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).

Press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia

A meeting of Dmitrii Medoev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, with Grigoriy Karasin, State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on January 22, 2018.


The main directions of the South Ossetian-Russian cooperation, ways of strengthening the foreign policy interaction between the states and the situation in the region were discussed during the meeting.


Tskhinval, January 22, 2018
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