Communist and Post-Communist Studies

December 28, 2018Eagle

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Volume 48, Issue 1

Pages 1-96 (March 2015)

Russia Needs to Revive Cossack Military Settlements, Sivkov Says

December 23, 2018Eagle

Saturday, December 22, 2018

Russia Needs to Revive Cossack Military Settlements, Sivkov Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, December 21 – Russia can’t afford to create irregular forces in the form of private military companies (PMCs) to provide territorial defense around the entire periphery of the country, Konstantin Sivkov says; and consequently, it should move to revive “real Cossacks” with real military settlements to perform that task. Read more →

400 Students from the Caucasus Arrested and Abused in Moscow

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018Eagle

400 Students from the Caucasus Arrested and Abused in Moscow

December 19, 2018

Written by WALT RICHMOND

From the site Kavkaz.Realii, December 17, 2018:

“400 students of the Sergo Ordzhonokidze State Geological Exploratory University were detained by the Russian National Guard. According to the site URA.ru, the representatives of the North Caucasus had established “their own rules” in the dormitory.”

However, what this means was never clarified.

Activists state political obstacles to Circassians’ repatriation to Russia

December 18, 2018December 26, 2018Eagle

18 December 2018, 11:03

Activists state political obstacles to Circassians’ repatriation to Russia

Russian authorities create bureaucratic obstacles for Circassian repatriates from Syria and Turkey; and foreign Circassians have no chance to obtain citizenship under a simplified procedure, activists from Adygea and Kabardino-Balkaria have stated.

The simplified procedure for acquiring Russian citizenship is not accessible for Circassian repatriates from Syria and Turkey because of the political situation, says Valery Khatazhukov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre (HRC). Read more →