The head of North Ossetia, Sergei Menyailo, in connection with the intention of South Ossetia to take steps to join the Russian Federation, said that the Ossetians had never lost contact with each other, remaining a single nation.
Earlier, President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said that the Republic would soon take legal steps to become part of Russia. Bibilov has noted that the opportunity to realize this "strategic goal" was back in 2014, when Crimea was reunited with the Russian Federation following a referendum.
"The Northern and South Ossetians have never lost contact with each other, never moved away, remaining a single nation with a single culture, language, traditions. In various historical periods, politicians made decisions that in one way or another changed the contours of administrative or state borders. But this never influenced the desire of Ossetians - to be a single whole, a single family. Actually, this is how we live: we work in Vladikavkaz, and live in Tskhinval, on weekends - there, or vice versa. There are graves of our ancestors, our architectural and cultural monuments, , family towers in the south. We are a single people and have never been divided spiritually and mentally," Menyailo wrote on Telegram.
