Tskhinvali Became Hero City

Prime-News
November 24, 2009

Tbilisi - Leader of separatists Edward Kokoity has conferred the rank of hero to the city of Tskhinvali.

South Ossetian information and primting department reports about it.

Tskhinvali has been given this rank for "Courage, steadfastness and heroism, showed by Ossetian people in their struggle dor freedom amd independence of their homeland".

The order was read out by the so called president of South Ossetia at the session, dedicated to the "beginning of the struggle for South Ossetia's independence".