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South Ossetia May Hold Referendum to Join Russia

RUSSIA
  • SOUTH OSSETIA MAY HOLD REFERENDUM WHEN RUSSIA'S READY
  • TASS CITES NEW SOUTH OSSETIA PRESIDENT ON JOINING RUSSIA
  • South Ossetia, officially part of Georgia, is separated from Russia's North Ossetia region by a border running high in the Caucasus Mountains
  • A source of tension since the break-up of the Soviet Union, South Ossetia hosted a brief war between Russia and Georgia in 2008. Moscow subsequently recognised South Ossetia as an independent state, and began a process of closer ties that Georgia views as effective annexation.
  • South Ossetia is inhabited mostly by Ossetians, who speak a language distantly related to Persian. Most ethnic Georgians have been displaced from the region by the two conflicts. They had accounted for about a third of the population prior to the fall of the Soviet Union.
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