Archive - 4/2021

At the last round of Geneva discussions, the South Ossetian delegation rejected accusations against South Ossetia of human rights violations, in particular, accusations that residents of the Georgian nationality do not have the right to study in their native language,” Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy Murat Dzhioev said at the press conference in Tskhinval.

“This information is absolutely false, and we have noted that there are schools in South Ossetia where the education is in the Georgian language,” he explained.

In middle XVIII Ossetia (Alania) was an independent country - a confederation of self-governed states.

There existed two kingdoms on territory of current Georgia – the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and the Kingdom of Imereti, and three princedoms – Guria, Mingrelia and Svanetia. At different extents they depended of Turkey and Iran.

1774 - Voluntary entrance of the united Ossetia into the Russian State;

1782 - Erekle II, the king of Kartli-Kakheti, asked the Russian Empress Catherine II to accept his kingdom under the protection of the Russian Empire;