Declaring Circassia a Republic
By: Adel Bashqawi
16 January, 2019
Month: January 2019
Moscow Doesn’t Trust Military Officers from North Caucasus for Most Senior Positions
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Moscow Doesn’t Trust Military Officers from North Caucasus for Most Senior Positions
Paul Goble
Staunton, January 15 – In the Soviet military, racism was far from absent, but some officers from the North Caucasus nonetheless made brilliant careers and rose to the highest positions. Among these was Dzhokhar Dudayev, a major general in the Soviet air force, commander of the Tartu garrison, and hero of Soviet operations in Afghanistan. Read more
الشركس يستقبلون عام 2019 أكثر تماسكا وأكثر غضبا من موسكو
السبت 12 يناير/كانون الثاني 2019
الشركس يستقبلون عام 2019 أكثر تماسكا وأكثر غضبا من موسكو
بول غوبل (Paul Goble)
ترجمة: عادل بشقوي
13 يناير/كانون الثاني 2019
ستاونتون، 11 يناير/كانون الثاني — اتّسم قدوم العام الجديد بمراجعات عديدة حول هذه الوحدة الإقليمية أو تلك من الفيدرالية الروسية وليس بشأن أمم معينة. والاستثناء البهيج لهذا النمط هو تقييم لاريسا شركس (Larisa Cherkes) عن الشركس، وهي أمّة قامت موسكو بتقسيمها داخل البلاد وسعت لعزلها عن الجالية الأكبر حجما ذات الأصول الإثنية المشتركة الواحدة في الخارج.
وأفادت الصحفية في موقع حقائق الكفكاز (Kavkaz.Realii) أنه خلال العام الماضي، ”انشغلت الحركة الشركسية بالأحداث المرتبطة بالنزاعات حول اللغات الأصلية، وكذلك بالجهود التي تبذلها السلطات الحاكمة التي من شأنها إبعاد العائدين الشركس إلى الوطن بشكل ملفت“ وعرقلة وصول القادمين الجدد من الشتات الشركسي (https://www.kavkazr.com/a/cherkesskiy–vopros-2018/29706138.html). Read more
Circassians Enter 2019 More United and More Angry at Moscow
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Circassians Enter 2019 More United and More Angry at Moscow
Paul Goble
Staunton, January 11 – The turn of the year has featured numerous reviews about this or that territorial unit in the Russian Federation rather than about particular nations. A happy exception to that pattern is Larisa Cherkes’s assessment of the Circassians, a nation Moscow has divided within the country and sought to isolate from its larger co-ethnic community abroad.
The Kavkazr journalist reports that over the past year, “the Circassian movement was occupied with events connected with conflicts about native languages and also with the efforts of the powers that be to demonstratively exile Circassian repatriants” and to block new arrivals form the Circassian diaspora (kavkazr.com/a/cherkesskiy-vopros-2018/29706138.html). Read more
Cossacks Vastly More Diverse than Putin Regime Acknowledges
Monday, January 7, 2019
Cossacks Vastly More Diverse than Putin Regime Acknowledges
Paul Goble
Staunton, January 7 – Reflecting its general impulse to homogenize and control all aspects of life in Russia and relying on the ignorance of many in that country and elsewhere about Russian history and Russian realities, the Putin regime has been promoting an image of the Cossacks that is wildly at variance with the rich and diverse tapestry of their national life. Read more
Deportation and Return of Vainakh Peoples Continue to Cast a Dark Shadow on the North Caucasus
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Deportation and Return of Vainakh Peoples Continue to Cast a Dark Shadow on the North Caucasus
Paul Goble
Staunton, January 9 – Sixty-two years ago today, Moscow allowed the Chechens and Ingush it had deported to Central Asia 13 years earlier, actions that continue to cast a dark shadow on the two Vainakh nations and their relationship with each other and with Moscow, Mairbek Vachagayev says. Read more