If Georgia could separate from Russia, why can't South Ossetia separate from Georgia?

Question

In both cases the people of those areas were for separation. South Ossetia was ruled by Russia for about 200 years. The people are not Georgians or Russians, but 67% of them are Alans. The Georgians were also ruled by Russia for 200 years or so.

Why is Georgian territorial integrity sacred, but Russian territorial integrity isn't?

Answer 1

Hummph. I believe you have pointed out the double standard that is ever present in the world these days. Good question.

Answer 2

Because God damned USA does not like it.

Answer 3

my dear! i am very impressed about your history knowledge!

NOW 1st. there is no name of South Osetia or North Osetia, those names  was given by Russians,it is like your Mom named you Anna and I kidnapped you and i would call you Marry.So. of course you love your Mom and I bet you would love to be called as Ann.

It is name only Oseti  ( what Russians call North), and there is "KARTLI " what Russians call ( south osetia).THIS KARTLI IS GEORGIAN TERRITORY AND WAS ONE OF THE KINGDOM PROVINCE LIKE OTHER PROVINCE. GEORGIAN TERRITORIES ALL GEORGIAN PROVINCES WERE KINGDOM.AND CENTURIES WE WERE ATTACKED   BY DIFFERENT NATIONS.

FROM OSETIA AS A CLOSES BORDER OF KARTLI AND SOME OF THE OSETIANS SETTLED IN GEORGIAN TERRITORY AND SINCE THEN THEY LIVED, AND STILL THEY LIVE NOT ONLY IN "SOUTH OSETIA" .BUT IN DIFFERENT REGION AND IN PRESENT THEY CONTINUED TO LIVE. THERE IS ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL PLACE IT CALL "BORJOMI" (IT'S A GROUND MINERAL WATERS NAME WHICH RUNS THERE) LOT OF  OSETIANS LIVE THERE AMONG THE GEORGIANS,BUT SOME HOW "NOBODY KILLS EACH OTHER". SO IN GEORGIA 4 MILLION GEORGIANS LIVES AND 1 MILLION OTHER NATIONS,GREEK,JEWISH,KURDS ,ABKHAZIANS,.ARMENIANS.RUSSIANS,ASIRIAN AND OTHERS.GEORGIA ONE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SMALL COUNTRY AND NEVER WAS ANY FIGHT AND STILL THERE IS NO FIGHT,AND WHO IS FIGHTING AND SINCE WHEN IT STARTED? ALL WORLD KNOWS,RUSSIA HAS ONLY 11-12 CENTURIES  HISTORY THEY HAVE NO EVEN OWN ALPHABET,THEY BELONG IN SLOVIAN GROUP AND THEY SPEAK SLOVIAN LANGUAGE.

According to historical sources, the Georgian alphabet was created in the III century B.C. during the reign of the King Parnavaz. It was changing in the course of centuries and thus reached the present days

  YOU TALKING 200 YEARS AND I LET YOU KNOW THE GEORGIANS HISTORY STARTS FROM STONE AGE. AS YOU SAY RUSSIA RULED, BUT EVEN THEY RULED GEORGIANS NEVER EVER OBEY TO RUSSIA AS A FORMER SOVIET COUNTRIES !

BESIDES EVERYTHING RUSSIA HAS OLD ANGER

90% OF GEORGIANS LIVED THERE IN "SOUTH OSETIA" AND IN "ABKHAZIA." AND THERE IS HUNDRED THOUSAND REFUGEES IN  GEORGIAN TERRYTORY SINCE 1992,RUSSIANS KILLED ABKHASIANS AND GEORGIANS,AND OSSETIANS TO GET THAT BEAUTIFUL VACATION PLACES FOR THERE EX-ARMY AND THERE FAMILIES WHICH HE DROWN FROM EAST GERMANY.POLAND .AND OTHER SOCIAL COUNTRIES! THAT HE CLAMES RUSSIANS LIVE THERE.BUT SINCE WHEN?FROM 1992!

NOW I WOUD LIKE ASK QUESTION TO IF RUSSIANS DEMANDED IN BROOKLYN NY  WE LIVED HERE AND WE WANT MAKE BROOKLYN RUSSIA WOULD YOU AGREE ?I  ALREADY KNOW YOUR ANSWER IS "NO!' SO I WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR MY ,NOT TO GOOD ENGLISH,BUT I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND.THIS IS LITTLE HISTORY PART:In 572, the Kartlians rose in arms and expelled the Persians. A local administrative state government or saerismtavro was instituted in Kartli. This early feudal state actually served as the basis for the creation of the future united Georgian monarchy. In the 7th-8th centuries, important sociopolitical changes took place in Georgia. The principalities (samtavros) of Kakheti, Hereti and Tao-Klarjeti, as well as the western Georgian Kingdom of Abkhazia, took shape in this period. A new force, the Arabs, appeared on the international scene in the 730s and 740s. They defeated the Persians and reached the Caucasus as well. In 645 they captured Tbilisi and installed an Arab Emir there, but they could not conquer West Georgia. Their presence there was only sporadic, and their power did not spread to the outlying mountainous provinces of Georgia, but embraced only the central area of Kartli. At the same time, thanks to Arab trade activity, Tbilisi flourished. It actually became an international center at the crossroads of several important trade routes. Soon, however, an anti-Arab liberation struggle started all over Georgia. At the end of the 8th century, the archon of Abuzgia--the Eristavi of Abkhazia (Abuzgia was the designation of the territory to the north of the Kodori River populated by the Abkhaz-Adyghe tribes, the ancestors of the present-day Abkhazians, as well as the Georgian-Megrel and Svan tribes; the Georgian term "Abkhazeti" had a similar meaning, while the ethnonym "Abkhaz" began from this time on, to be applied to the whole population of West Georgia)--Leon rose in rebellion against Byzantium and declared himself "King of the Abkhazians." He also liberated Lazica (Egrisi) and founded an independent Egrisi-Abkhazian Kingdom with the capital Kutaisi, in the centre of West Georgia.

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