Justice For North Caucasus

German president boycotts Sochi Winter Olympics Joachim Gauck is first major political figure to boycott Games, understood to be in response to Russia’s rights violations Philip Oltermann in Berlin The Guardian, Sunday 8 December 2013 10.15 GMT Joachim Gauck, the German president, has repeatedly criticised Russia’s ‘deficit of rule of law’ and ‘air of imperialism’. Photograph: Kay [...]

December 5, 2013 04:48 PM Attacks on Churches and Mosques in Russia on the Rise

By: Mairbek Vatchagaev

Orthodox Church burnt in Kazan (Source: tatar-inform.ru)

Against the backdrop of anti-Islamic hysteria launched by the Russian government’s propaganda machine, it is hard not to notice the negative trend in such a delicate matter as [...]

Friday, December 6, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown – 9 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North Caucasus Note:  This is my 41st   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 [...]

Moscow’s Effort to Debunk Circassian ‘Genocide’ Backfires Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor November 26, 2013 03:42 PM By: Paul Goble (Source: bianet.org)

Russian efforts to discredit Circassian arguments that that nation was subjected to an act of “genocide” by Tsarist forces in 1864 in Sochi, the site of next February’s Winter Olympiad, have backfired on Moscow. Not [...]

Friday, November 29, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown – 10 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North Caucasus Note:  This is my 40th 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 [...]

Опубликовано 22.11.2013 14:41 Adyghe Khasa in Maikop Decided to Declare Next Year, “A Year of Grief ”

Adyghe Khasa in Maikop has taken a decision to declare the year 2014 “A Year of Grief”, the basis of this decision is – next year coincides with the memory of the passage of 150 years of [...]

Tuesday – 29/10/2013

FIFA vice-president points World Cup way over racism in Russia

CHRISTIAN RADNEDGE in AMMAN: FIFA vice-president Prince Ali of Jordan is “optimistic” that contentious issues – such as racism – plaguing the image of Russia as a world sports host can be overcome.

Prince Ali was speaking after the Yaya Toure incident [...]