As far as I know, the North Caucasian alphabets have been Cyrillicized in the 1930s. Is this seen as an effort to increase Russian influence and are there attempts to change the graphics, or do people just acknowledge it as fact and treat this like a normal thing?
In what language is school education conducted?
How is history taught, especially Russian-related events?
Are there universities? In what language do they teach? How comprehensively? Or do people go for higher education in Moscow and other big Russian cities?
Is a local literature taught? To what extent, in comparison to Russian literature?
If we compare this to Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia (independent countries), what are major differences?
This year, Ukraine has significantly expanded its drone warfare capabilities, which has resulted in Russian Black Sea coast, including cities like Tuapse and Sochi, being bombed. In one recent incident, Russian drones tried to intercept Ukrainian one, it fell and exploded on coast in Gelendzhik, resulting in civilian casualties.
What if such incidents happen in Abkhazia too? This year, there has been an alert declared several times in Abkhazia because of Ukrainian drone incursion, and in July, Russian military actually fired a missile from Abkhazia, which veered off its course and went into direction of Turkey, but it fell into Black Sea and tensions have been avoided (for now). In Abkhazia, there are Russian military bases, naval bases, railway and other infrastructure which can potentially become target of Ukrainian drone strikes.
This is something new. They are directly claiming right now that there is some "artificial campaign" to "discredit" Russia for 2008 and 2022 wars (as if Russia does not bears responsibility and that's not why it is increasingly hated; this is same as telling a Chinese person in 1939 that they should not actually be against Japan and "Japanese tourists", that it is just some artificial campaign), using terms such as "Russophobia" and so on. Moreover, statement that Russia does not recognizes 20% of Georgia's sovereignty while EU does not recognizes 100% is dangerous, it literally portrays Russia as a "lesser evil", and moreover, it hides that it is actually Russia which does not recognizes sovereignty of Georgia and even of any post-Soviet country because they literally call them "near abroad" and "backyard". While I am not very pro-EU, this statement literally portrays Russia as better than EU for Georgia, which is nonsense.
In the past, they were talking about national identity and traditions, now they are directly defending Russia and Russians.
What is this? Is this a reaction to Kakheti wedding incident, they are trying to somehow rehabilitate themselves in Russian eyes? Or, if we pay attention to increasing Russian grip on occupied territories (Abkhazia and "South Ossetia"), is this preparation for something benign?