December 2020 – Page 2 – Justice For North Caucasus

Moscow’s Organizations for Ties with Russian Speakers Abroad Part of FSB ‘Under Cover,’ Polyak Says

December 16, 2020Eagle

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Moscow’s Organizations for Ties with Russian Speakers Abroad Part of FSB ‘Under Cover,’ Polyak Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, December 14 – From the very beginning of his time in power, Vladimir Putin has viewed the 30 million Russian speakers living abroad as key promoters of Moscow’s interests abroad. In that, Rimma Polyak says, he has followed the Soviet tradition of putting his intelligence agency, the FSB, in charge of dealing with them.

In a detailed article for Vestnik Civitas, an online project she heads, Polyak points out that in the ramified system of government and nominally private organizations, Rossotrudnichestvo, the Federal Agency for CIS and Compatriot Affairs and International Humanitarian Cooperation, is the most important (vestnikcivitas.ru/pbls/4248). Read more →

Moscow’s Misrepresentations about Colonial War in Caucasus Set the Stage for New Violence, Khakuasheva Says

December 16, 2020Eagle

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Moscow’s Misrepresentations about Colonial War in Caucasus Set the Stage for New Violence, Khakuasheva Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, December 11 – George Santayana’s observation that those who forget the past are condemned to relive it is taking on new urgency in the Russian Federation where the lies some Russian leaders and media figures are telling about the tsarist colonial wars in the Caucasus are setting the stage for new violence, Madina Khakuasheva says.

The senior scholar at the Kabardino-Balkar Institute for Research on the Humanities argues that the increasing insistence by such Russians that the Circassians and other peoples of the region were exclusively to blame for Russian losses during the tsarist colonial advance rather than the regime that dispatched troops is backfiring (natpressru.info/index.php?newsid=12233). Read more →

Сколько можно врать о черкесах? По мотивам онлайн-дискуссии на КУ 26.11.2020

December 16, 2020Eagle

Сколько можно врать о черкесах? По мотивам онлайн-дискуссии на КУ 26.11.2020

Скандальная ситуация А. Лебедева непосредственно связана с установкой памятника, который назывался «Монумент подвигу русских солдат». Ей предшествовала долгая непростая преамбула, так что незначительная фигура Артемия Лебедева – лишь крайнее звено в необозримо длинной цепи… Он лишь «грубо и зримо» перевел «тайное» в разряд «явного».