Abstract
<jats:p>This study examines historical events and decisions related to the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict in the period from 1989 to 1992, which were reflected in the regional South Ossetian periodical, the official state media of South Ossetia, published in Ossetian and Russian by Soveton Iryston (Soviet Ossetia). The publications of the newspaper “Admonykhas”, published by the socio-political movement of the same name, which advocated the secession of the South Ossetian Autonomous Region from the GSSR, were used as auxiliary materials. Based on the materials of the South Ossetian press, the initial period of the conflict, its active phase and the events of the peaceful settlement stage are considered. The array of publications contains important and key decisions, resolutions, appeals and statements of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of South Ossetia, the leadership of the Republic of South Ossetia; summaries of military operations, numerous interviews with government officials, eyewitnesses of events, participants in the defense of South Ossetia represent a rich source of historical information about the military-political armed confrontation with Georgia. To a certain extent, the information policy of the state and private media of Georgia, which have chosen anti-Ossetian rhetoric for their editorial activities, is affected. Regional media are considered as a source of official documents testifying to decisions to end the armed conflict and humanitarian blockade, the results of negotiations between the parties, resolutions, facts of war crimes and mass violations of human rights by the Georgian side. The periodical press of the period of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict of 1989-1992 is a source of relevant information in the study of the causes, beginning and end of the ethnopolitical conflicts in the South Caucasus using the example of Georgia’s military actions against South Ossetia. Currently, in a period of acute geopolitical tension, the importance of an objective analysis of the socio-political processes taking place in the post-Soviet space, in particular in the South Caucasus, is becoming increasingly important, especially in the context of the defrosting of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 2020-2023 and the transformation of risks and threats, the information space in the region.</jats:p>