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 [...]

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 [...]

Stanford Report, September 23, 2010

Stalin killed millions. A Stanford historian answers the question, was it genocide?

When it comes to use of the word “genocide,” public opinion has been kinder to Stalin than Hitler. But one historian looks at Stalin’s mass killings and urges that the definition of genocide be widened.

Jack Hubbard

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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 [...]

Geopolitical Games Around “Greater Circassia” Vladislav GULEVICH | 28.12.2010

Judging by the fact that several US research centers are studying the genocide allegedly suffered by the Circassian people and doing what they can to put together a basis for the independence of Circassia, the “Circassian problem” features permanently on Washington’s humanitarian agenda.Research in Circassian history [...]

Friday, November 22, 2013

Window on Eurasia: Sochi Countdown – 11 Weeks to the Olympiad in the North Caucasus Note:  This is my 39th 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 [...]