Justice For North Caucasus

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 [...]

Sergey Markedonov May 17, 2013 On February 7, 2014, the XXII Olympic Winter Games will open in the famous Black Sea resort of Sochi. These games will be the first Russian-hosted Olympics since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Thus, the Sochi games will provide an important symbol greater than mere athletic competition. The Sochi project [...]

Friday, June 7, 2013

Note:  This is my 15th 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 [...]

كراسنايا بوليانا: كسر صمت دام 150 عاماً (الجزء الأول)

الناشر: أوراسيا ديلي مونيتور

(Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume)

 31 مايو/أيار 2013

بقلم: إبراهيم جوكيموخ (Ibragim Gukemukh)

ترجمة: عادل بشقوي 7 يونيو/حزيران 2013

بعد [...]

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 10 Issue: 103 May 31, 2013 04:03 PM By: Ibragim Gukemukh

Introduction

After the Crimean (a.k.a. Eastern) war of 1853–1856 and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1856 ending that war, the Russian Empire began to turn toward the final conquest of the Caucasian mountaineers.  Russia was finally able [...]

In the last years the Circassian Question re-appeared across the mainstream media, especially after the 4th of July 2007 when in Guatemala City Russia won the organization of the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014. Georgia, which fought against Russia in the Five Day War of August 2008, was in the last few years an important [...]