The Ossetian population of North Ossetia is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority, speaking Ossetian and Russian.
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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.
The term "Alania" quickly became popular in Ossetian daily life through the names of various enterprises, a TV channel, political and civic organizations, a publishing house, a soccer team, an airline company etc.
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One retreated into the foothills and valleys of the central Caucasus and produced the two principal Ossetian groups, Digor and Iron.
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.
He, however, is against the Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence from Georgia, arguing that Georgia is essential to maintaining European Union "energy independence," vis-a-vis Russia, through access to oil and gas reserves in the former Soviet republics: "If Tbilisi falls, there will be no way to get around Gazprom and guarantee autonomous access to the gas and petroleum wealth of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan" .
Dmitry Medoyev, at the time the South Ossetian envoy to Moscow, claimed that Georgia was attempting to cover up information on events which occurred in the lead up to the war.
Some 70,000 South Ossetian refugees were resettled in North Ossetia, sparking clashes with the predominantly Ingush population in the Prigorodny District.
Some of the Kabardians living in North Ossetian Republic's Mozdok district and the southern part of the neighbouring Kursky district of Stavropol Krai are Orthodox Christians, whereas the other part of which are Sunni Muslims as well as Kabardians of Kabardino-Balkar Republic who belong mainly to Sunni Muslim faith, with a Habze minority.
On August 7, 2008, at the beginning of 2008 South Ossetia war Kurashvili told Rustavi 2 television that Georgian forces were moving to "establish constitutional order in the Ossetian region."
It is common in regions of Georgia with a large Ossetian population, such as Akhalgori.
Cranmer begins his journey, first to an arms dealer in Macclesfield, England, whom he finds murdered along with his assistants by an Ossetian group called "The Forest"; then to find Emma, who has sought shelter in Paris; then to Russia to track down his former Soviet contacts in hopes of finding Larry; then to Ingushetia to find his friend and try to save him—from the Russians, the Ossetians, and from himself.
Common Slavic *xъmelь, common hop (Humulus lupulus)' < Turkic (cf. Chuvash xӑmla, hop-plant < *qumlaγ) < Iranian (cf. Ossetian xumællæg, hop-plant < *xaum-ala-ka, from *xauma, soma/haoma);