On March 18, 2019, Tskhinvali Region hosted event in memory of “Eredvi Tragedy“. (According to Osetian party, on March 18, 1991, near village Eredvi, armed Georgians stopped the bus driving 25 ethnic Ossetian citizens from village Dmenisi to Tskhinvali. 12 men were tortured and buried alive). Tskhinvali Region de facto president Anatoly Bibilov and the “Ambassador“ of Russian Federation in Tskhinvali Region Marat Kulakhmetov attended the event.

Sergey Cherbotarev, the Minister of the Russian Federation for North Caucasus Affairs, sent a telegram to Bibilov, stating that “this tragedy has become the most horrible and inhuman event in latest history of South Ossetia“.