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Will Russia Gobble Up South Ossetia?

Is Moscow about to gobble up South Ossetia — the breakway region that sparked the Russia-Georgia war? It depends on who you ask. "Yes, undoubtedly, we will become part of Russia. We are not planning to make some kind of independent Ossetia," Eduard Kokoyty, president of South Ossetia, said today. According to Interfax: Kokoyty stressed […]

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Is Moscow about to gobble up South Ossetia -- the breakway region that sparked the Russia-Georgia war? It depends on who you ask.

"Yes, undoubtedly, we will become part of Russia. We are not planning to make some kind of independent Ossetia," Eduard Kokoyty, president of South Ossetia, said today. According to Interfax:

Kokoyty stressed that unification with North Ossetia meant "restoring historical justice, since the Ossetian people was divided against its will."

On the other hand, you have this, from the AFP: "South Ossetia does not intend to join the
Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday."

"I don't know where you have heard this information. South Ossetia doesn't want to enter anywhere," Lavrov said.

[Photo: AP / Boston Globe]

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