Editing North Ossetia–Alania (section)

=== Russian Federation period (1990–present) ===
The [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] posed particular problems for the Ossetian people, who were divided between North Ossetia, which was part of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], and [[South Ossetia]], part of the [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Georgian SSR]]. In December 1990, the [[Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR]] abolished the autonomous Ossetian enclave amid the rising [[Georgian–Ossetian conflict|ethnic tensions in the region]], which was further fanned by Moscow; a lot of the conflict zone population, faced with the ethnic cleansing, was forced to flee across the border to either North Ossetia or Georgia proper.

As a result, some 70,000 South Ossetian refugees were resettled in North Ossetia. Additionally, North Ossetia provoked the predominantly Ingush population in the [[Prigorodny District, North Ossetia|Prigorodny District]], which sparked the [[Ossetian–Ingush conflict]]. The results of the conflict were that 7,000 Ossetians and 64,000 Ingush refugees had to flee their homes.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1996/Russia.htm |title=RUSSIA: THE INGUSH-OSSETIAN CONFLICT IN THE PRIGORODNYI REGION |website=[[Human Rights Watch]] |date=May 1996 |isbn=1-56432-165-7|last1=(Organization) |first1=Human Rights Watch }}</ref> On 23 March 1995, North Ossetia–Alania signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.<ref name="asymmetries">{{Cite journal |last=Solnick |first=Steven |date=29 May 1996 |title=Asymmetries in Russian Federation Bargaining |url=https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1996-810-08-Solnick.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=The National Council for Soviet and East European Research |pages=12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828112303/https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1996-810-08-Solnick.pdf |archive-date=28 August 2017 |access-date=6 May 2019}}</ref> However, this agreement was abolished on 2 September 2002.<ref name="demokratiztsiya">{{Cite journal |last=Chuman |first=Mizuki |title=The Rise and Fall of Power-Sharing Treaties Between Center and Regions in Post-Soviet Russia |url=http://demokratizatsiya.pub/archives/19_2_L7H017206G216817.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308002915/http://demokratizatsiya.pub/archives/19_2_L7H017206G216817.pdf |archive-date=2019-03-08 |url-status=live |journal=Demokratizatsiya |pages=146}}</ref>

Following the ''de facto'' independence of South Ossetia, [[Proposed Russian annexation of South Ossetia|there have been proposals in this state of joining Russia]] and uniting with North Ossetia. As well as dealing with the effects of the conflict in South Ossetia, North Ossetia has had to deal with refugees and the occasional spillover of fighting from the wars around them. This notably manifested in the form of the [[Beslan school siege|2004 Beslan school siege]] by Chechen terrorists.<ref name=":0" />