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unusual facts about Ossetia



2006 North Ossetia pipeline explosions

The 2006 North Ossetia pipeline explosions consisted of two explosions on the MozdokTbilisi pipeline in North Ossetia on January 22, 2006.

Alagirsky

Alagirskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Alagir Town Under District Jurisdiction in Alagirsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania is incorporated as

Alagirsky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia

Alla Dzhioyeva

Under her leadership, South Ossetia became more integrated into the Russian system of education: the South Ossetian teachers could be trained in Russia, spaces were allocated in Russian post-secondary institutions for South Ossetian students.

Ardonsky

Ardonskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Ardon Town Under District Jurisdiction in Ardonsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia is re incorporated as

Ardonsky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania

Bekan

Bekan, Russia, a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of Ardon Town Under District Jurisdiction in Ardonsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

Digorsky

Digorsky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

Digorskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Digora Town Under District Jurisdiction in Digorsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia is incorporated as

Flick family

Gert Rudolph Flick "Muck Flick" (May 29, 1943), 2 children (married and divorced to Princess Johanna von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, married and divorced to Princess Donatella Missikoff of Ossetia with whom he had one son Sebastian (1989), married to Corinne Müller-Vivil with whom he had one daughter)

History of North Ossetia–Alania

Some 70,000 South Ossetian refugees were resettled in North Ossetia, sparking clashes with the predominantly Ingush population in the Prigorodny District.

As of 1944, the part of the Prigorodny District on the right bank of the Terek River had been part of Chechen-Ingush ASSR, but it was granted to North Ossetia in following Joseph Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia.

Kolka

Kolka Glacier, a glacier in North Ossetia, Russia, near Mount Kazbek

Mozdoksky

Mozdokskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Mozdok Town Under District Jurisdiction in Mozdoksky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia is incorporated as

Mozdoksky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

North Ossetia–Alania

The Ossetian population of North Ossetia is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority, speaking Ossetian and Russian.

There are two official languages in North Ossetia – Russian, which is official for all federal subjects of Russia (North Ossetia being a republic), and Ossetian.

People of South Ossetia for Peace

"I have voted for peace and we expect Georgians and Ossetians to build a new state," Sanakoev said after casting his ballot in Akhalgori, a district in South Ossetia that is controlled by the Georgian authorities.

Provisional Administrative Entity of South Ossetia

On July 13, 2007, Georgia set up a state commission, chaired by the Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli, to develop South Ossetia's autonomous status within the Georgian state.

The Provisional Administration of South Ossetia is an administrative body that Georgia regards as the legal government of South Ossetia, even though ths administrative entity was formally abolished by the Georgian authorities in 1990, and currently the area is considered a part part of the Shida Kartli region.

Roki Tunnel

The road is manned at the town of Nizhny Zaramag in North Ossetia and is sometimes referred to as the Roki-Nizhny Zaramag border crossing.

Russia–South Ossetia relations

Following Medvedev's visit, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, Emergencies Minister Sergey Shoygu and Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliyev travelled to South Ossetia on 21 July 2009, where they attended the opening of two rural police stations, and attended the signing of an interagency agreement between the two countries prosecutorial agencies.

Slavs and Tatars

Stealers Wheel' "Stuck in the Middle with you" became "Stuck in Ossetia with you" about the Georgia-Russia war of 2008 while Michael Sembello's "She's a Maniac" (from Fame) becomes "She's Armenian" about the Armenian diaspora.

South Ossetian independence referendum, 2006

South Ossetia, an independent partially recognized republic in the South Caucasus, formerly the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic with its capital in Tskhinvali, held a referendum on independence on November 12, 2006.

Taymuraz Mamsurov

In July 2008, he accused the Western diplomats of plotting a “Jesuitical plan” of uniting South Ossetia and North Ossetia into a single entity in order to then push it into NATO through Georgia.

Visa policy of South Ossetia

Everyone, except the residents of the Leningor (Akhalgori) district who can enter and leave South Ossetia through Georgia, is obliged to enter South Ossetia through Russia.


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