@PolyglotPostman And learning Russian isn't exactly discouraged. It's still taught in some schools, but as I've already mentioned before - most of them dont really care about Russian and sometimes know only VERY basic things.
@PolyglotPostman Depends on the people. The older generation speaks Russian pretty much fluently (Most of them) and I can't really speak for them since almost everyone has mixed feelijgs about Russia. However this generation mostly speaks English and can't really speak Russian.
@PolyglotPostman 1. South Ossetia is still occupied by Russia if that's what you're asking
2. Well I dont know how to exactly answer this. If you're generally curious about the alphabet, well Georgian doesn't reassemble any other language, therefore we have our own alphabet, but writing it is--