الجمعة 22 يونيو/حزيران 2018

الشركس يدينون مشروع قانون الكرملين اللغوي بـاعتباره ”سياسة إمبريالية بحتة“

بول غوبل

ترجمة: عادل بشقوي

22 يونيو/حزيران 2018

            ستاونتون، 22 يونيو / حزيران — أثار انتهاء مجلس الدوما الروسي من تمرير مشروع الكرملين المتعلق بقانون اللغة بالقراءة الأولى بنجاح الذي من شأنه أن يجعل دراسة جميع اللغات في روسيا، باستثناء اللغة الروسية طوعياً بواقع 373 صوتًا مقابل 3 أصوات مع امتناع واحد عن التصويت، غضبًا في الجمهوريات غير الروسية بشكل عام والأخرى الشركسية على وجه الخصوص باعتباره حالة مذهلة ”للسياسة الإمبريالية البحتة“ للمركز. Read more →

Friday, June 22, 2018

Circassians Denounce Kremlin’s Language Bill as ‘Purely Imperial Policy’

Paul Goble

Staunton, June 22 – The Duma’s passage on first reading of the Kremlin’s language bill that would make the study of all languages in Russia except Russian purely voluntary by a vote of 373 to 3 with one abstention has sparked outrage in the non-Russian republics generally and the Circassian  ones in particular as an appalling case of the center’s “purely imperial policy.” Read more →

Intellectual Invasion Proxies

 

By: Adel Bashqawi

22 June, 2018 Read more →

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Besides the Russian Victory: Five Other Stories from the World Cup

Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 20 – As a result of its second victory, the Russian team has advanced to the second round of the World Cup, the first time it has done so since 1986, an occasion for congratulations and massive celebration by Russians across the country, developments that are eclipsing almost everything else. Read more →

Circassians Remember the Past But Mobilize for the Future

By: Paul Goble

May 29, 2018 

This year as every year for more than a century, the nearly 500,000 Circassians in their North Caucasus homeland and the more than five million Circassians in the diaspora paused, on May 21, to remember the losses they suffered during their 101-year-long resistance to Russian imperial expansion and their forcible expulsion from their homeland in 1864. Indeed, according to Zaurbek Kozhev of the Kabardino-Balkar Institute of Humanitarian Research, this memorial day is “an inalienable part of contemporary Circassian identity” and thus the basis for the mobilization of the community to pursue its collective goals, a point other speakers at memorial meetings made as well (Kavkazsky Uzel, May 23). Read more →

«Без родного языка нет и русского»: обращение к президенту Путину

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Fifteen Minutes of Fame Long Gone: Circassian Activism before and after the Sochi Olympics

Bo Petersson and Karina Vamling

Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

bo.petersson@mah.se,   karina.vamling@mah.se Read more →