Презентация книги «Черкесское чудо» (продолжение)
Адель Башкави
17 февраля 2021 г.
Paul Goble’s 42 Windows on Eurasia for Feb. 1-6, 2021
Saturday, February 6, 2021
Pandemic Failed to Eclipse Circassian Movement and has Given It New Opportunities, Activists Say
Paul Goble
Staunton, February 5 – The pandemic has not only overwhelmed many other issues in the concerns of ethnic groups but has cost many of them leaders who have died from the coronavirus and will be difficult if not impossible to replace. As a result, Madina Aliyeva says, there is a risk that Covid-19 will overwhelm their movements at least for a time.’
The commentator draws that conclusion on the basis of her conversations with Circassians who acknowledge that worries about the pandemic have overwhelmed all other concerns, including ethnic ones, and taken from the community important leaders (oc-media.org/ru/statyi/stal-li-cherkesskiy-vopros-eshchy-odnoy-zhertvoy-globalnoy-pandemii/). Read more
Only Circassians Reacted to the Investigation of Putin’s Palace / Только черкесы отреагировали на расследование о дворце Путина
Только черкесы отреагировали на расследование о дворце Путина в таком, крайне важном аспекте: он построен на украденной земле изгнанного народа Read more
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Paul Goble
Staunton, January 30 – Non-Russians are often criticized for focusing on their own ethnic issues and not participating in broader political movements involving the all-Russian opposition. But in a happy exception, Circassians from the North Caucasus and the diaspora have sent an open letter to Aleksey Navalny denouncing “the Putin palace” the Russian activist has exposed.
“The Putin palace,” the letter notes, “is located on Cape Idokubas on the shore of the Black Sea not far from Gelendzhik, on the motherland of the Circassians. It, just like the Olympic objects in Sochi, was erected on the territorial of the Caucasus reserve” (justicefornorthcaucasus.info/?p=1251682941 and doshdu.com/cherkesskie-aktivisty-zajavili-chto-dvorec-putina-byl-postroen-nezakonno/). Read more