The study of some geographic names in North Ossetia, which contain Georgian anthroponyms, has shown, that the toponymical material complements the ethnographic data and provides important information regarding the origin of families, their surnames, geographical localization, and migration processes. The eponymous surnames revealed through the toponymy of Dvaleti, together with other toponymic material, may strengthen the hypothesis that before the migration of the Iranian-speaking tribes, the population of Dvaleti had been spoken the Kartvelian language.

This article was devoted to the movement of the highlanders against the Russian authorities in the first half of the 20th century. After the end of the Caucasian War, a new order was established in the Caucasus. Most of the lands on the plain were given to Cossacks and Russian colonists. The Highlanders were forced into the mountains.

To understand the deep historical processes taking place in the North Caucasus region of Russia in the last decades of the XX and the beginning of the XXI centuries, it is necessary to take into account the official role attributed to this region by the political elites of Russia.

The paper aims to discuss the monograph "Political History of Georgia after the Declaration of Independence" by the well-known Western scientist Stephen Jones, based on the analysis of parallel thinking...