Most Ossetians live in North Ossetia (459,600 people), while in Moscow there are 7,900 Ossetians and in St. Petersburg slightly over 3,000.While 45,900 Ossetians live in the disputed territory of ...

For South Ossetians, Bitterness Follows Attacks Residents of Separatist Zone Describe Georgian Assault That Destroyed Houses and Apartment Buildings Across Their Capital August 16, 2008 More than ...

Refugees from South Ossetia on Sunday described being shelled and shot at and forced to run for their lives — leaving homes, family members and most of what they had behind.

Ossetians warm to Moscow's embrace A year after Georgia and Russia fought over the tiny territory, fears of a land grab are not unfounded. Shaun Walker reports. Sunday 09 August 2009 00:00 BST.

Many Ossetians say they believe the United States supported Georgia's use of military force to try to restore Georgian rule in South Ossetia. Following the Georgian assault on Tskhinvali, ...

In the shadow of conflicts past and present, Ossetians and Georgians have found ways to coexist. Twenty-five years after the collapse of the USSR, how do they fit into the post-Soviet story?

Ossetians are an Iranian ethnic group who speak a language related to Persian. In 1989, the South Ossetian population of around 98,500 was two-thirds ethnic Ossetian and about one-third ethnic ...

TSKHINVALI, Georgia -- Tamaz Barbikadze tip-toed out of South Ossetia's Interior Ministry Sunday flanked by three armed guards. A frail man of 69 years, he was given five minutes to describe to ...

In June 1994, the presidents of Russia's republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia signed an agreement to resettle Ingush who had been displaced two years earlier during a short armed conflict ...

The Abkhazians and the South Ossetians, with Russian backing, have seceded from Georgia and declared their independence, moves rejected by the international community.