Ninety-five percent of South Ossetian citizens have Russian passports, said South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov.
" 95 percent of South Ossetians are citizens of the Russian Federation. It is not only right, it is necessary," Bibilov told reporters.
He has reminded that, with Russian passports, residents of South Ossetia can solve their pressing problems, get an education, travel around the world. In addition, having Russian passports "suggests that Ossetians have always considered Russia their historical homeland," the President said.
"Ossetia as a single state entered the Russian Empire in 1774. Only decades later, in 1801, the first Georgian principality also entered the Russian Empire," he said.
