Alania (political party)

The Union for the National Revival of Alania was established on 28 April 1991^[1] by Aleksandr Ramonov and other officers of the Soviet Army. Subscribing to National Bolshevism, the party argued for the preservation of the Soviet Union under the Communist Party,^[2] It additionally supported increasing the rights of the Digor people, and recognition of Ossetians as being direct descendants of the Alans.^[3] The party's political programme called for active measures to strengthen the Ossetian language, ensure a "national-cultural revival", and conduct scientific studies on the historical origins of the Ossetians.^[1]

In July 1994, Alania founded its own newspaper, known as Alanta.^[4] During the 1995 Russian regional elections, it failed to win a single seat, and the party subsequently fell into inactivity during the mid-1990s.^[2]