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
