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Article: South Ossetia to reunite with North, join Russian Federation.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- September 11, 2008
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South Ossetia to reunite with North, join Russian Federation
Moscow, 11 Sept (PTI) South Ossetia President said the Georgian breakaway province had plans to re-unite with North Ossetia and join the Russian Federation.
"Of course we will join Russia and this will be the restoration of historical justice, because the Ossetian people were partitioned against their will," South Ossetia President Eduard Kokoity said.
Speaking at the Valdai Forum of foreign experts on Russia, in Sochi, Kokoity said that Ossetia as a single state joined the Russian Empire in 1774, but it was partitioned by Stalin, a Georgian, and South Ossetia was transferred to the ...