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South Ossetia has won its place in the material world, we've beaten back
#GeorgianAggression
and achieved a solid status quo. But it's also important to win our place in the world of ideas and words, where fascist, genocidal propaganda labels us as "Samachablo", "occupied",
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It's not every day that you see a head of state openly boast about successful ethnic cleansing to an international audience, but the wonders you see when you look at the EU's strategic partners are truly limitless.
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So many Westerners live within some Defeat Russia videogame and can't see past it. Real issues of real peoples struggling for survival and prosperity are secondary to them, if noticed at all.
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Big news! "Over the next few days", Google Translate is adding support for Ossetic, Abkhaz, Chechen, Bashkir, Buryat, Yakut and other languages, 110 new languages in total. This follows the news that Yandex Translate, GT's Russian competitor, is also adding Ossetic support.
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He made an emphasis on the words "final cleaning", too. Just zero fear of criticism or backlash, because we all know there will be none. The message to the world is that it's final solutions season. You can do whatever you want if the conditions are right with no repercussions.
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Ossetia wins its first Olympic gold medal of 2024 – in judo. Zelim Kotsoev, competing for Azerbaijan, defeated Georgia's Ilia Sulamanidze to claim the prize. Cardæj bafsæd, Iry qæbul!
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Found a good article listing the references to the North Caucasus in Frank Herbert's Dune. Apparently, his primary well of inspiration was The Sabres of Paradise by Lesley Blanch, a book about the struggle of Shamil's Imamate against Russia.
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Georgia has never been oppressed by Russia – it *literally invited* the Russian Empire to the Caucasus, sparking a century of war against the North Caucasians, while various GE lands that had long fallen to Iran and Turkey were reconquered by Russia for the Georgians to enjoy.
Well done, Putin, it took a lot to reverse the international perception of Russia from a liberator of Europe to a modern Nazi Germany. If only Ukrainians weren’t dying for it, I’m glad you exposed what we the Russian-oppressed peoples have always known.
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Azerbaijan gets to do a final solution because it has gas. Georgia's aspirations for something along those lines are not objectionable because Georgia is a Western foothold in a region that is sensitive for Russia. Good times for final solutionists.
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Azerbaijan's success in destroying Artsakh and facing absolutely no backlash really is something to behold. Not like we needed any more proof that the West's hailed "values" do not exist, they are little more than a rhetorical weapon to use when it is convenient.
Congratulated
@presidentaz
Aliyev on his reelection & extended best wishes for his new mandate. Underlined the importance of continued engagement with
@osce_odihr
.
Discussed also 🇪🇺🇦🇿 relations & cooperation, including connectivity & energy.
Had substantive discussions also on
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An Armenian friend sent me an almost scientifically accurate representation of the South Caucasus.
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What an absolute disgrace for Germany and its foreign policy that its Ambassador consumes and praises such incredibly vile and transparently false propaganda. From this to the Israel disaster, German foreign policy is truly appalling these days.
Watching the film "Before
#Bucha
was
#Abkhazia
" - presented by
@liberty_ge
in the presence of President
@Zourabichvili_S
- we saw testimony of horrifying crimes, brutality and inhumanity committed in 🇬🇪 by Russian troops and their allied militias in 1992/93.
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Just your regular Georgian "human rights activist" focusing on ethnic minorities (absolutely amazing) and a winner of some "tolerance award" 🤡
One of the conflicts created by Russia in the South Caucasus was resolved after 30 years
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You can connect the dots and think of another final solution curretly underway in Gaza. There, it is allowed for many reasons, but it's chiefly about Washington having no objections and eagerly lending a hand.
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#ZarTragedy
On 20 May 1992, 4 cars with Ossetians escaping from the besieged and bombarded Tskhinval, mostly women, old people and children, were ambushed by armed Georgians. Presenting no demands, the ambushers opened fire. 33 killed, 18 injured, of which 3 died in the hospital.
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Another funny thing is that a lot of foreigners support Circassian and Chechen self-determination aspirations while rejecting those of Ossetia and Abkhazia, but Circassians and Chechens themselves fought and died for Abkhazia's freedom :)
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President Gagloyev has suspended the decision of his predecessor to hold a referendum on joining Russia until further discussions with Moscow. Reassuring, relieving news. Perhaps our home can still be preserved.
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Stalin was a Georgian, and under his reign Georgia advanced its nationalist interests at the expense of other nations with the full support of the Soviet State; few places in the USSR, if any, were as privileged and elevated
🇬🇪For over a century, Russia has systematically oppressed and interfered in Georgia, from Stalin’s brutal reign through today’s Trojan Horse, Georgian Dream (GD).
🧵Let’s expose how GD’s mission has always been to ensure Georgia never escapes Russia’s control and influence.
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⚡️Response of South Ossetian President Alan Gagloyev to
@NikolPashinyan
's statement against South Ossetia and Abkhazia's right to exist:
"We treat the Armenian people, with whom we have a centuries-long history of friendship, with respect. But we are not interested in the opinion
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Bega Koshty (Kocty Bega), the leader of the defenders of South Ossetia's Česeltgom against Russian and Georgian troops in 1830, one of Ossetia's most beloved folk heroes, and my ancestor, in a new artwork by the contemporary Chechen artist Rustam Yakhikhanov.
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@korni_rus
@MiniminTttttt
@M4sterSTeele
@minimagnus1
@hangoratale
Спасибо, что решаешь, какой геноцид страшен, а какой -- не очень, выродок ;)
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Regrettable, despite being mostly dictated by the dire situation Armenia is in.
The Armenians and the Ossetians have had nothing but friendship for centuries. North Ossetia's Armenian community is large and appreciated. South Ossetian volunteers fought for Artsakh.
In a press conference, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed full support for Georgia's unity, sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence, democracy, and statehood.
Pashinyan highlighted noticeable differences in Armenia's UN voting patterns before and after
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Today is a day of mourning in
#Ossetia
. 21 years ago, in what later came to be known as the
#EredTragedy
, 12 Ossetian civilians were captured by armed Georgians who subjected them to gruesome torture before burying them alive. The murderers were never prosecuted.
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Not like anyone needs to hear this obvious observation, but things are really not looking good for Armenia and Artsakh. It's quite the sight to see next to nobody care, too. Reminds me of the indifference with which the League of Nations watched Italy crush Ethiopia.
BREAKING: Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense has announced that it has launched “necessary local operations” in Artsakh.
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Today, the Ossetian nation remembers the most devastating, cruel, unforgivable crime of all that Georgia has committed – the genocide of 1920 which took the lives of 5 thousand people and displaced anywhere between 20 and 50 thousand at the least. Dzænæty badut.
#Genocide1920
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Throughout the world, politicians, experts, journos etc should be honestly discussing how this outcome was a damning failure of all parties and institutions involved. Excuses and don't matter. What matters is that the current system allowed the eradication of a whole community.
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Breaking news from Italy. The lower chamber of the country's Parliament is having a sitting on "The right of nations to self-determination. Abkhazia and Greater Europe". Abkhazia's Ambassador at large, an ethnic Italian with Abkh. citizenship, proposes the following:
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The same is true of Georgia, an extremely privileged Soviet Republic that has enjoyed incredible power in the USSR and used it to damage and subjugate others, like the Abkhazians and the Ossetians. Today, Georgia claims victimhood and wants to erase all memory of real history.
🇪🇪 Photos of Kaya Kallas’ family, “suffering from the Soviet dictatorship,” are going viral online.
Kaya’s father, Siim Kallas, worked in the Ministry of Finance of the ESSR, then was the head of the state-owned Sberbank in the republic, and later served as deputy
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@NashaCanada
Я осетин и я ответственно заявляю, что написавший твит выше - невежественный ублюдок
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RU's Medvedev, in an article concerning the lessons of the Georgian-Ossetian war of '08, said that the idea of joining RU is popular in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and may be realized if the actions of Georgia become a threat again. Abkh and SO officials do not quite agree. 🧵
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An observation: almost nobody from the Russian opposition has ever tried to reach out to North Caucasians. Some would occasionally drop a chauvinist remark. Some choose to self-flagellate in front of Georgians at the expense of Ossetia and Abkhazia. But the rule is indifference.
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Gather enough Georgians in one place for whatever reason, and chances are they will turn into aggressive psychos demanding imperial rule over their neighbours.
Georgian National Football Team celebrating the EURO 2024 qualification with people, singing: "Abkhazia is Georgia, Samachablo (so-called South Ossetia) is Georgia" What a day! We have been waiting for this day for years! Thank you, boys!🇬🇪✌️
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Georgia, Ossetia and Abkhazia could use people who can engage in good-faith exploration of the essence of our conflicts and start envisioning solutions. For now, Georgia is at a maximalist unltranationalist consensus, while Abkhazia and Ossetia are quite passive.
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Wælaxiz wæd xædbar Iryston
Victory to independent Ossetia
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of the PM of Armenia who left Nagorno-Karabakh in the direst of straits. He betrayed his own people, mostly ethnic Armenians, who expected help from ARM. Pashinyan could not master the courage to recognize Artsakh's independence. Opinions of such politicians do not interest us.
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It is June 20. The day when Ossetia remembers the catastrophe
#Genocide1920
, conducted by Georgia. This image is its emblem, officially adopted by the State of Alania a few years ago.
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Today is Ossetian Language and Litarature Day. On this day in 1899 "Iron Fændyr" (Ossetian Lyre) by Kosta Xetægkaty, the bedrock of our literary tradition, was published. The most famous and quintessenial piece within it is "Dodoj" (Sorrow). I translated it into English.
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In one sentence, she pretends to address Ossetians and Abkhazians and calls our homelands "occupied" because at last it is us who controls them, not her mini-empire. I struggle to find printable words.
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Each June 20, Ossetia remembers the victims of
#Genocide1920
, when the "Georgian Democratic Republic" slaughtered five thousands of us and expelled up to fifty thousand. One of the darkest days of our history, one of the most vivid examples of what Georgia has been and is to us.
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#Beslan
is mourning the victims of the Moscow terror attack. The photo is from the gym of the Beslan school, where more than a thousand people were held hostage in 2004, 334 of whom, including 186 children, did not survive. The lamps form the words "Moscow. We mourn... Beslan".
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Memorial service in memory of the victims of the Beslan terror attack in Moscow. Dzænæty badut
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Still hilarious to see Georgians campaigning for the Ukrainian cause while holding a quasi-religious belief that they must destroy Abkhazia and South Ossetia, their own two "Ukraines" whom they've tried for centuries to oppress and prevent from proper self-determination. A circus
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Vladimir Kuznetsov, the great historian who uncovered and proved the contunuity between the Alans and the Ossetians, died today at the age of 96. Ænustæm cæræd dæ ruxs nom, næxi Vladimir
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What a terrible disaster. Long live the Abkhaz, so that they might create and amass new treasures of art to replace some of these losses.
In Abkhazia, the National Art Gallery was ravaged by fire overnight, resulting in the COMPLETE DESTRUCTION of its foundation. Approximately 4,000 artworks were lost in the blaze, with 300 belonging to famous Alexander Shervashidze-Chachba. The inferno originated on the second
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@RWApodcast
Moscow, not Russia. It's a text about one city in the biggest country of the planet, there's not one word about anything else. Still quite interesting, but let's be real.
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There are many things that make the DNR and LNR cases very different from those of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Below I'll outline a simple and telling point concerning this.
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A real emblem of our capital, and a part of the triad of buildings in the city centre which reflect its diverse nature - this mosque, the Armenian church and the Ossetian church.
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Yandex Translate, the Russian tech giant's Google Translate competitor, is adding Ossetic support. Eager to see how well it will work
В «Яндекс Переводчик» добавят осетинский язык.
Это будет первый из национальных языков СКФО на платформе. Теперь пользователи ресурса смогут мгновенно переводить тексты с осетинского языка на русский и наоборот.
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@gorgich
Ёбаный ты пёс, спасибо, что в очередной раз говоришь, что бомбить мирных осетин это нормально, разрешено и пресекать это ни за что нельзя
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Congratulations to all the idiotic and evil supporters of misused "territorial integrity". Keep at it, there is more blood to be spilled in sacrifice to sacred Communist borders.
"It seems they have forgotten that they live in Azerbaijan" - he says everything Azerbaijan did was legitimate and legal.
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The dywwadæstænon fændyr, or twelve-string harp, is an Ossetian instrument whose origin story is described in one of the most sublime and sad legends within our Nart Sagas. It has to do with the mischievous trickster Syrdon. 🧵
Playing the traditional Ossetian harp is once again becoming popular in Ossetia.
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Eternal memory to the Ubykh language. May it ever be a banner we carry into our constant struggle for a life of prosperity and freedom. May its sound live on among scholars and learners; may it see the miracle of revival, if our strength is enough.
Tevfik Esenç passed away 31 years ago, on October 7, 1992, in Türkiye. With his death, the Ubykh language also passed away, as he was the last native speaker.
Until 1864, marking the end of the Russian-Caucasus War, the Ubykh people resided along the eastern shore of the Black
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Official announcement from Ossetia: staff of Višegrad 24 has our heartfelt wishes of harm and ill fate.
Ossetia and Abkhazia are and will remain free from the enemy that has done all it could to destroy them and brought untold suffering to them.
The time has come to restore Georgia’s territorial integrity and throw out the Russian soldiers stationed in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
🇬🇪
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Reading a bit about the Chechen wars, I'm reinforced in my opinion that those who support Chechnya against Russia while supporting Georgia against Ossetia and Abkhazia are either some of the most blind and confused people ever or simply malevolent hypocrites.
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A bit of a milestone and a visually pleasing number. Thanks to all who consider my thoughts worth reading.
If you have some feedback, if you, for example, would like to see more content of a specific type or topic, feel free to speak up.
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Today and tomorrow, people will be working hard to erase the reality of illegal
#GeorgianAggression
against South Ossetia in '08. We'll do what we can to combat that, but I also ask the people of conscience who read me for help. Please be the rare voices of truth and reason.
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An Ossetian would add that the insistence on viewing the Soviet era in Georgia as "occupation" where Georgians had no agency is also a neat and dishonest tool of dodging responsibility for severe oppression policies towards ethnic minorities in favour of Georgians in that period
This article has a number of serious problems.
The political structuring of anti-Soviet memory politics into Georgia’s post-Soviet nationhood is ignored, while it suggests reconciliation of the Soviet past should happen through victimhood.
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Nothing special, just Abkhazians using the flag of Togo because it looks similar to theirs.
Us Ossetians and Abkhazians being treated like sub-humans in this way is, of course, temporary. We'll have the symbols of our nationhood recognized and accepted like everyone else's yet.
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@Mikiashvili_M
All I've said is literally and verifiably true, so go figure who's sane and who's a propagandist who deceives clueless gullible foreigners who'll jump on literally anyone who claims victimhood from Russia :)
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A video in support of
#Palestine
, shot in the mountains of
#Ossetia
.
The cases of
#SouthOssetia
and
#Palestine
have many similarities. Both are countries struggling for full recognition of their self-determination. Both are viewed by the West as legal targets of violence.
A girl from Ossetia shot a video in the mountains in support of the residents of the Gaza Strip.
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It is an unchanging political and historical reality that Georgia is hostile to the North Caucasus and its peoples. The North Caucasian movement of the early 1990s knew this very clearly and joined armed resistance to Georgia in Abkhazia. We should understand this today as well.
Abkhazia, 2023. Representatives of volunteer associations hold a flag symbolizing the forces of the peoples of the North Caucasus who rushed to Abkhazia's aid when the Georgian war machine decided to wipe the young Caucasian state off the map.
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The man saw the final decades of the Russo-Caucasian war first as a child, then as a youth, likely took part in it, and then watched the majority of his people depart from the homeland never to return. Powerful photo
Hajji Zachery Brantov, an 82-year-old Circassian from the village of Pshizhabl. Kuban region, 1920s
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God, make up your mind on whether Abkhazia is under Russian occupation or a country with various political forces that disagree on bills. Please also look up the definition of occupation. Ridiculous.
"How do you explain to the Abkhazians, who are fighting against adopting a copy of the Russian law, that independent Tbilisi adopts the law that occupied Abkhazia opposes?" MP
@Teona_Akubardia
asked MP Guram Macharashvili of People's Power.
#NoToRussianLaw
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Today is Ossetian Language and Literature day.
Our language is what contains millennia of our development as a culture. Speaking it, I feel a different, unique worldview, a value system, an aesthetic taste. Speaking it fills me with strength, calm and comfort.
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Need I even answer? Pic of my grandmother's cousin for illustration purposes
How would you dress if you had nothing stopping you? Not society, race, religion, or income. Please drop photos also.
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Make no mistake: "Georgia will prevail" means "Abkhazia and Ossetia will be vanquished, and we'll sell it to you by saying we only fought Russia"
Georgia will prevail!
Ukraine will prevail!
Israel will prevail!
Freedom will prevail!
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Madyxox ("Mother Mountain"; Столовая гора/"Table Mountain" in Russian) as seen from North Ossetia's capital Dzæwdžyqæw.
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This is the bullshit we end up with when we clamp down on the right to self-determination and treat borders of recently created states as sacred. All this brings is injustice, war, suffering, and ethnic cleansing.
A quick reminder: Karabakh is an integral part of the Republic of
#Azerbaijan
🇦🇿 under international law & UNSC resolutions. Hence 🇦🇿 has all the right to take necessary actions to stop any illegality on its sovereign territory.
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What an insane and senseless massacre in Moscow. I hope the authorities find the perpetrators and the masterminds.
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122 years ago on this day, Vaso Abajty, the great Ossetian linguist and Iranologist, was born. His work, most of all the Etymological Dictionary of Ossetian Language, is still widely used by scholars of both the Ossetian language and, more broadly, Iranian languages.
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Georgia, a breakaway territory of historical Russian/Soviet empire. Like the sound? Well, neither do we, and yes, the comparison is completely legitimate – in both cases the wording refers to a historical imperial entity which is now in the past and should stay that way.
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@doxa_journal
Традиционный урус-"либерал": не любит Россию настолько, что лжёт про осетин и абхазов как последний грузинский шовинист
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Good.
Speaking as an Ossetian: the West shamelessly, unjustifiably, relentlessly opposes my people's freedom and self-determination and supports a historically violent and hostile neighbour trying to subjugate us.
Why would anybody listen to their lectures as things stand?
“We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” said one senior G7 diplomat. “All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost . . . Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”
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September 19 is National Flag Day in South Ossetia. A symbol of honour, justice, righteous struggle and prosperous life. A beacon to which we rally in dark and happy days alike.
Bærægbony xorzæx wæ wæd! Næ tyrysajy akkag wæm alkæddær.
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Alfred de Zayas, esteemed scholar of int'l law & former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, deems SO and Abkhazia statehood legitimate, explains his view and adds that they might seek to join RU because of the West's pressure.
Abkhazia and South Ossetia are independent States. Only they have a right to determine their own future. But if the West persists in sanctioning them, they may themselves, for their own welfare, seek reunification with Russia.
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Today is the birthday of Vaso Abaev, the renowned Ossetian linguist. He lives on through his legacy, which helps both researchers worldwide and Ossetians.
A photo of Vaso with his British friends and colleagues, Sir H. W. Bailey and W. E. D. Allen, in the Ossetian village of Nar.
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Chikola is a village in the West of North Ossetia, so in the area populated by Digor Ossetians, most of whom are Muslim. It's one of the largest Digor settlements.
Digor Ossetians speak their own dialect of Ossetic. As a speaker of Iron Ossetic, I'd say I understand ≈75% of it.
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Finished reading "The Last Of The Departed", the book about the exile and eventual death of the Ubykh people. Haven't read many things as sad as this, ever. May their name live on forever, may none of the living share their fate
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@gorgich
Этого клоуна больше разочаровывает то что Буш не разбомбил Москву а не то что осетин Юга в Бог знает какой раз пытались уничтожить, you can't make this shit up
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On 15 October 1859, Kosta Khetagkaty was born. A genius writer, poet, artist, and champion of North Caucasian peoples' rights. He became the conduit through which our culture, the Ossetian way of viewing the world, spread its wings with power we had not known was possible.
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Good to see these vile people angry.
Ossetia and Abkhazia are (at the very least) equal to Georgia. What Georgia is entitled to, we are entitled to. The ideology of Georgian supremacy must die.
Seeing the Georgian flag fly alongside the de facto symbols of the occupied territories is a sad representation of how low we have fallen
Any Georgian sports organization participating in the BRICS Games in Russia must have its state funding removed and non-profit status pulled
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In many conflicts, the stance of the West is determined by one factor and one factor only – which side opposes Russia. Observe this phenomenon applied to the Caucasus: a Caucasian people deserves support and compassion only if they fight Russia.
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Pretty much like Russia's wrestling teams, which are almost all Ossetians and Dagestanis. It only makes sense :)
France's under-23 freestyle wrestling team for the European Championship: all Chechens
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@CanbackRasmus
Georgia, one of the most unabashedly, rabidly nationalist countries of the world, is the EU's regional beacon of progress and the side to uncritically support in its old and complicated conflict against its ethnic enemies. A huge failure and disgrace for the EU (and others).
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Regular reminder: Salome has never seen an Abkhazian and doesn't really know what that is
Abkhazia is not for sale, we will not concede to the Russians!
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The newest issue of Darial, the Ossetian mostly Russian-language literary journal. The cover of this issue depicts Bega Koshty, the Ossetian folk hero, the leader of the defenders of South Ossetia's Česeltgom against Russian and Georgian troops in 1830.
The Daryal Gorge, 1862.
Artist Ivan Ayvazovsky (Hovhannes Ayvazyan, 1817-1900)
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The Armenians of Abkhazia were neutral – up to a point. Wanton violence by the invaders who didn't even care they weren't Abkhazian made them take up arms to defend themselves. Perfectly understandable
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The Georgiaphile Westerner strikes again. In an ethnic conflict, it's a tremendous idea to completely disregard all sides but one, make an effort to ignore reality and simply play back chauvinist talking points when prompted.
@rochowanski
Always great to hear from you, Almut. You might be missing the point here by some 100%, but yes, Western hegemony occupied Abkhazia and Ossetia
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A recent issue of Ræstdzinad, the Ossetian newspaper that has been published since 1923.
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@RustamGahraman1
Why are you upset? He is Ossetian. We don't have an independent state that directly participates in the Olympics – we cheer on Ossetian athletes competing under the flags of many countries, Azerbaijan included.
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Very simple yet important. We see this with regards to Abkhazia and South Ossetia as well – real, vital, legitimate aspirations of their peoples are swept under the rug to be replaced by the moronic assertion that these conflicts are only about Russia.
“Vietcong are merely puppets of Moscow, Beijing”, “Hamas are merely puppets of Tehran”, this unbroken logic has by recent history unfortunately justified limitless civilian casualties and destructions; when genuine political grievances and aspirations on the ground are reduced to
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Here's an Ossetian nymæt xud ("felt hat"). In the second picture, my great-grandfather is wearing an almost identical one.
Let's see a pic of you wearing a hat.
(Romanian shepherd's hat at the Village Museum in Bucharest.)
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Inside Moscow's Ossetian church. Always beautiful to see Ossetic in a Christian context.
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On 29 May 1992, South Ossetia declared independence.
Most of what needs to be said is contained in the declaration itself. Our independence was remedial - a means of surviving.
It's been 31 years, brothers and sisters. Wælaxiz wæd xædbar Iryston! Victory for independent Ossetia!
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Today is the 32nd
#OssetianIndependenceDay
. OTD in 1992, based on the results of a referendum, the people of South Ossetia declared an independent Republic in the face of genocidal
#GeorgianAggression
– as the Act says.
Wælaxiz wæd xædbar Iryston. Victory to independent Ossetia.
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South Ossetia is an independent state recognized by Russia and a number of other countries, and everyone should take this into account."
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Found this old pic. Grandma Sofia, her brother Mishá and their dad Gædžity Gybyl. He escaped from his home in South Ossetia in 1920 as Georgian troops were ravaging the land, never to return. He was among the founders of Nogir (literally "New Ossetia") in the North in 1921.
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