South, North Ossetian MPs Ask Moscow for Help

In a joint statement made on June 1 lawmakers from the breakaway South Ossetia and Russia’s North Ossetian Republic urged Russia to “provide security and protect the rights of Russian citizens living in South Ossetia” against the background of “Georgia’s provocative actions.”

The appeal, which was sent to Russia’s lower and upper houses of the Parliament, reads that Georgia “has finally chosen a course towards the destabilization of the situation in the conflict zone and implementation of a plan for the forceful integration of South Ossetia into the Georgian state.”