Justice For North Caucasus

Article from “Examination of Power”

Material from Samir Hotko’s Book: ”Circassian Gardens”

17, 06, 2013

LOST PARADISE

The ancient Circassian gardens pose one of the greatest mysteries of the North Caucasus. In the vast territory once inhabited by Adyghes – right in the woods – you would come across large areas full of fruit trees – apple, [...]

Friday, June 14, 2013 

Note:  This is my 16th special Window on Eurasia about the meaning and impact of the planned Olympiad on the nations in the surrounding region.  These WOEs, which will appear each Friday over the coming year, will not aim at being comprehensive but rather will consist of a series bullet points about such [...]

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Paul Goble             Staunton, June 12 – Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 has not yet been integrated into the political memory of Ukrainians, a shortcoming that means many in that country do not view it as the crime that it was and thus continue to manifest xenophobic attitudes against [...]

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Paul Goble             Staunton, June 12 – Despite the hysteria about it whipped up in Russian language outlets in Kazakhstan, one commentator says, the growth of Chinese influence in Kazakhstan is far less a threat to the survival of the Kazakh people than the past and present impact of Russian influence on [...]

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Paul Goble             Staunton, June 11 – Reflecting the increasing share of non-Russians among draftees in the Russian army and the declining percentage of them who know the Russian language, Duma deputies are now calling for the Russian military to begin providing Russian-language training for soldiers in these groups.             Yesterday, “Izvestiya” reported [...]

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Paul Goble             Staunton, June 7 – Faced with declines in their overall numbers and in the use of their national language, the Karelians, the titular nationality of the Republic of Karelia, are increasingly looking to European institutions in general and Finnish ones in particular to help them combat assimilation and ensure [...]

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Paul Goble             Staunton, June 8 – Officers of Russia’s FSB spy agency “openly and boldly” followed Russian opposition figures attending an international conference in Vilnius last week thus making them feel that there were in “a suburb of Moscow,” Lithuanian media report, the latest indication that Moscow is increasing its intelligence [...]