Efforts to save the Ossetian language are running up against a host of problems on both sides of Russia's border with a breakaway Georgian republic, contributing to fears that both forms of Ossetian ...

A group of teachers and linguists is mounting a petition drive to urge President Vladimir Putin to preserve the mandatory status of Ossetian-language classes in the North Ossetia region. The North ...

A Georgian state radio station, on June 7, started a two-hour program to be aired daily in the Ossetian language, for the Ossetian-speaking population living in Georgia?s breakaway South Ossetian ...

The school year has just begun in South Ossetia, but it could prove to be a strange one for the territory’s few remaining ethnic Georgians. From this year onwards, all Georgian-medium schools in the ...

Russia's southern Republic of North Ossetia and Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia on March 22-23 held a joint cabinet session in Vladikavkaz. Talks officially focused on ways to boost ...

On May 31st, President Saakashvili proposed a number of social benefits for the populations, both Georgian and ethnic Ossetians, living in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetian, aiming at ...