Georgia’s protests against renaming placenames in SO are groundless – expert

Georgia's demands to stop the renaming of South-Ossetian locations are absolutely groundless. This was stated by famous South-Ossetian expert Yuri Beteev.

As reported by IA OSinform, Beteev underlined that Georgia basically has got no right to interfere in South Ossetia's affairs, for the latter is an independent and sovereign state.

"In South Ossetia, there is the process of correcting historic unfairness when within many years of cultural genocide of our republic the names of towns and villages were forcibly changed and the population of South Ossetia was forced to change their surnames in a Georgian manner", - he added.

Let us remind you that earlier, the foreign policy administration of Georgia disseminated a statement expressing protest in connection with the process of returning South-Ossetian names to the locations of RSO. In the opinion of official Tbilisi, the true purpose of this process is the "elimination of the traces of the Georgian population" in the territory of South Ossetia.

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