Think Tanks in Democratic Countries
Adel Bashqawi
March 20, 2023
North Caucasus
Haphazard Accusations: Circassians Don’t Beg for a Certificate of Good Conduct from Russia
Haphazard Accusations:
Circassians Don’t Beg for a Certificate of Good Conduct from Russia
Adel Bashqawi
March 15, 2023
Cossackia: A Potentially Powerful Bulwark Against Russian Imperialism
Cossackia: A Potentially Powerful Bulwark Against Russian Imperialism
March 14, 2023
Cossackia, the land east of Ukraine and north of the North Caucasus in the Russian Federation, is the traditional home of the three largest Cossack communities: the Don, Kuban and Terek hosts. As such, it has the potential to become a powerful bulwark against Russian imperialism, a defender of Ukraine and an ally of the West, its activists argue (T.me/Ertaul, March 11). But despite these very real prospects given the territory’s enormous natural wealth and geographic location astride the north-south and east-west trade routes Moscow has relied on to project power, Cossackia as a potential country remains more often a subject of dismissive laughter for the West than one that evokes serious attention. Three major reasons undergird this failure, and not one is justified.
First of all, many Western analysts remain not only Moscow-centric with regard to all communities outside the Russian capital but also prisoners of Hollywood and Soviet propaganda, in particular about the Cossacks. This propaganda blames the Cossacks for pogroms others ordered them to take part in and fails to pay much attention to the Soviet genocide of the Cossacks (Window On Eurasia, January 29, 2020; January 28). Second, those who know more about the Cossacks doubt that any Cossack state is possible due to the enormous diversity of the Cossack community and its geographic dispersion. As a result, they refuse to recognize the three largest hosts as predominant. And third, the West has not recognized that, in Putin’s Russia, two very different groups of people are referred to as Cossacks and that, following what happens to one group, mentions nothing about how that affects the other. Read more
Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia March 12, 2023
Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia March 12, 2023
Note from compiler: This week, I begin four weeks of daily radiation treatment for my second kind of cancer. Preparations for that have already slowed my production of Windows, and this new round of treatment is likely to slow that down still further. I will do what I can but ask for your understanding. Thanks. Paul Goble
Представители общественности призывают российские власти оказать помощь соотечественникам проживающим в Турции и Сирии, пострадавшим в результате землетрясения.
Представители общественности призывают российские власти оказать помощь соотечественникам проживающим в Турции и Сирии, пострадавшим в результате землетрясения.
Автор: ПЦ
Президенту РФ В. В. Путину, Председателю Правительства РФ М. В. Мишустину, Председателю Совета Федерации Федерального собрания РФ В. И. Матвиенко, Председателю Государственной думы Федерального собрания РФ В. В. Володину
Копия: Главе Республики Адыгея М.К. Кумпилову, Главе Кабардино-Балкарской республики К.В. Кокову, Главе Карачаево-Черкесской республики Р. Б. Темрезову, Губернатору Краснодарского края В.И. Кондратьеву
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Вся общественность Кабардино-Балкарии, Адыгеи, Карачаево-Чаркессии и Причерноморской Шапсугий крайне обеспокоена трагическими событиями, которые произошли в Турции: на сегодняшний день подтверждена гибель свыше 44 тыс. человек, повреждено 173 000 зданий и сооружений. Периодически продолжают происходят толчки магнитудой до 4-6 баллов, то есть люди живут в состоянии постоянного стресса, с ощущением возможного повторения катастрофы. Свыше 20 миллионов пострадали. Read more
The Unforgotten Ukrainian Lesson, Part 3 / 3
The Unforgotten Ukrainian Lesson, Part 3 / 3
Adel Bashqawi
February 26, 2023
The Unforgotten Ukrainian Lesson, Part 2 / 3
The Unforgotten Ukrainian Lesson, Part 2 / 3
Adel Bashqawi
February 25, 2023