The Circassians are attracting ever more attention as the Internet has allowed those in the homeland and those abroad to reinforce one another and as this increasing activism has challenged Moscow’s control of a region by undermining the...
Moscow’s falsification of the history of the Circassians and its disavowal of the imperial nature of Russian policy that led to the expulsion of most of the members of that nation not only shows that the Russian government is committed...
For Circassians, who have been deprived of a common territory and even a common ethnic name by Russian and Soviet policies and whose people have been spread across the world with more than ten times as many living in diaspora communities...
Even people who accept that the North Caucasus is a Russian colony often argue that the republics of that region would be incapable of living on their own. But Avraam Shmulyevich says that history shows they could and that both they and...
Today, Circassians and their supporters mark the 153rd anniversary of the day Russian forces expelled Circassian nation from their homeland in 1864; but the Russian genocide directed against the Circassians did not begin on that day or end...
“Russian Tsars attack a small people with millions of soldiers and they consider themselves noble.” Kube Şaban, Circassian poet Circassians have always been a small people. Living in the harsh conditions of the Caucasus Mountain...
At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space in the non-Russian portions of his country, the United States has taken two decisions about international broadcasting that send...
One hundred sixty-two years ago today, tsarist forces defeated the Circassians in the North Caucasus after the latter had successfully resisted the Russian advance for 101 years and then the Russian government expelled most of them to the...
For decades, Circassians have marked May 21 as a Day of Sorrow, the anniversary of their expulsion from Russia in 1864 and an event many view as an act of genocide. Until recently, they did so only privately but beginning in 1989, they...
Seventy-two years ago, the Soviet state deported the Crimean Tatars from their homeland to Central Asia, a tragedy that resulted in the death of many and the wounding of all. And in the years since, the Crimean Tatars have marked this...
Abstract This report investigates the attempted – and partly “successful” – Russian influence in the Austrian Ministry of Defense as well as in organizations in its “entourage.” It starts with the Vienna-based...
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