Yuri Dzitstsoity

[4] In 2005, as vice-speaker of Parliament, Yuri Dzitstsoity criticized the European Union's allocation of relief funds, stating that over 70% of the funds set aside for Transcaucasia have been spent in Georgia, and that the only project the EU worked on in South Ossetia was the reconstruction of a school in Java[5] In 2008 Yuri Dzitstsoity was part of a state visit to Chechnya, alongside Minister of Health, Nugzar Gabaraev, and Commissioner for Human rights, David Sanakoev, where he stated that he hoped South Ossetia would be integrated into Russia, like Chechnya had been, sometime in the near future.

[8] The commission also sought to create new Ossetian words to end the use of predominately Russian and English loanwords, mostly on technological matters.

[9] In 2014 Yuri Dzitstsoity served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Relations, where he worked on formalizing a legal framework to assess Georgian "aggression" from 2004 to 2008.

[11] In 2014, Yuri Dzitstsoity gave an interview to Radio Free Europe outlining the progress that the government has taken to codifying and promoting the use of the Ossetian language, comparing it to the Czech National Revival.

[13] In 2021 Yuri Dzitstsoity called for more government involvement in the revival of Ossetian, stating that his project does not have the necessary scientists and resources to effectively implement the changes from a Slavic to Iranian language in the country, namely, that the people who can speak Ossetian are mostly from rural regions, and are illiterate let alone devoid of a technical and scientific background.