Friday, September 13, 2019
Paul Goble
Staunton, September 8 – With 27 votes in favor (out of 32), Makhud-Ali Kalimatov was confirmed by the republic’s Popular Assembly as head of Ingushetia for a five-year term, an election with no surprises that was described by one writer as “a profanation of democracy under the pretext of stability” (6portal.ru/posts/выборы-главы-ингушетии-профанация/). Read more
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Paul Goble
Staunton, September 7 – Ever more young Russians are living together and even having families without formally registering their marriages, but Rosstat reports that the lowest marriage rates in the Russian Federation are in the North Caucasus, ignoring the fact that many young people there are married in Muslim ceremonies and do not register with the state. Read more
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Paul Goble
Staunton, September 7 – Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, acting head of Ingushetia, says the Ingush people must ignore calls for a boycott of municipal elections lest by not voting they reduce the sense of responsibility that deputies must always show to the population (ingushetia.ru/news/m_kalimatov_prizval_zhiteley_ingushetii_prinyat_aktivnoe_uchastie_v_munitsipalnykh_vyborakh_/). Read more
Анзор ОСТАХОВ | 08.09.2019
Немаловажным вопросом в изучении военного искусства черкесов является вопрос об их артиллерии. С одной стороны, он позволяет глубоко понять недостатки адыгского военного дела и крайний предел ресурса его развития. С другой – он наглядно демонстрирует те перспективы, которые могли значительно повысить боевую мощь горцев. Именно этот вопрос ближе всех подводит к раскрытию причин поражения черкесов в Кавказской войне (1765-1864). Read more
21 May
ResearchAcademic studiesExile1864 | The Times, The Circassian Exodus
The Times
New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, Volume XIX, Issue 1987, 17 August 1864, Page 4 (From The Times, May 9, 1864, p.11.)
Constantinople, April 28.
Official intimation has been received here of the capitulation or Vardar, the last stronghold of the Circassians, and of the consequent submission of all the tribes. I had occasion in a previous letter to refer to the flood of immigration which was pouring into the Turkish dominions from the Caucasus, and to the defeats which had been experienced by these gallant mountaineers; and although there could be no doubt at that time that the cause of the Circassians was hopeless, there was not sufficient ground for anticipating the extraordinary movement which has since developed itself, and which threatens, unless immediate relief and succour be obtained, to degenerate, as regards these poor people, into an awful disaster. Read more
خارطة شركيسيا المستقلة
The Map of independent Circassia
Today I visited the military museum of Vienna, and I found by coincidence a map on one of the walls belonging to the 18th and 19th centuries. Read more
المطالبة بالاعتراف بشركيسيا كدولة تحتلها روسيا
ترجمة: عادل بشقوي
3 سبتمبر/أيلول 2019
شركيسيا التي كانت متطورة ومزدهرة في الماضي ولتي أعطت للعالم ثقافات مايكوب (Maikop) ودولمن (dolmen)، والملاحم النارتية الأسطورية (Nart Sagas)، أصبحت نموذجًا أصيلا للعديد من الأساطير اليونانية القديمة. إن شركيسيا التي الهمت من ذاتها الكثير من الأساطير المنتشرة في جميع أنحاء العالم، هي التي احتُلَّت كليًا في نهاية المطاف في 21 مايو/أيار 1864 بعد ما يقرب مائة وخمسين عامًا من المقاومة البطولية لقوات الاحتلال الروسية والنضال من أجل الاستقلال والسلامة الإقليمية. لقد تم تدميرها والقضاء عليها كدولة، وتم ضم جميع الأراضي الشركسية الوطنية وتم توطين السكان فيها على نطاق واسع من قبل الغزاة الروس. Read more
