Apparently they think it means quitting your own country to join an even bigger one…
Tarzan Kokoity*, [South Ossetia]’s Deputy Speaker of parliament, announced that South Ossetia would be absorbed into Russia soon so that its people could live in “one united Russian state” with their ethnic kin in North Ossetia.
Doesn’t Russia know it’s bad to pick up on the rebound?
*yes, Tarzan
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