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Thursday, October 29, 2020

Moscow Treating North Caucasus Republics like Colonies, Khatazhukov Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, October 27 – Many Russians and others as well blame conditions in the North Caucasus republics on the nations there, blaming them for the authoritarianism of their regimes. But that is not the cause of the situation. These republics began to build serious civil societies in the 1990s, but then Moscow crushed them, Valery Khatazhukov says.

            The Circassian head of the Kabardino-Balkar Human Rights Protection Center says that the reason for this change was not the second post-Soviet Chechen war but rather the Kremlin’s decision to treat Chechnya and the other republics as colonies and test repressive measures there before using them elsewhere (caucasustimes.com/ru/valerij-hatazhukov-kreml-vystraivaet-svoi-otnoshenija-s-severnym-kavkazom-kak-metropolija-s-kolonijami/). Read more →

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Chechens Turned to Islam to Find Justice But Circassians Already had It, Bzegezhev Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, October 25 – Russians and other outsiders are accustomed to lumping together all the peoples of the North Caucasus, except for the North Ossetians, as Muslims, but what it means for each of them to be a Muslim varies widely depending on the nature of their cultural code before Islam arrived and whether it provided justice, Askhad Bzegezhev says.

            Writing on Moscow’s Snob portal, the Circassian commentator says he always was struck by the fact that Russians call all Circassians Muslims while none of his relatives, friends or acquaintances go to mosques or wear the hijab or otherwise behave as Russians expect Muslims to (snob.ru/profile/32165/blog/171092/). Read more →

Валерий Хатажуков: «Кремль выстраивает свои отношения с Северным Кавказом как метрополия с колониями»

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Проект Великая Черкесия – миф или реальность

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Friday, October 23, 2020

Efforts by Moscow and Ankara to Exploit Circassians Make Role of Circassians Elsewhere More Critical, Ozdemir Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, October 21 – Cem Ozdemir, a Circassian who serves as a Green deputy in the German parliament, says Moscow and Ankara have adopted such an instrumental approach to the Circassians, with each using that nation for its own purposes, that the role of Circassians in other countries in ensuring the survival of that people is more critical.

The Russian and Turkish government, albeit for very different reasons, have sought to reduce the Circassians to an ethnographic curiosity, one where its members celebrate their traditional dances and marriage ceremonies but give up their language and collective identity (oezdemir.de/2020/10/13/interview-mein-vater-war-ein-tscherkesse; in Russian at justicefornorthcaucasus.info/?p=1251682700). Read more →

Джем Оздемир

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السبت، 17 أكتوبر/تشرين أول 2020

موسكو تسعى مرة أخرى إلى منع الأمة الشركسية التي قُسِّمَتْ في عهد الاتحاد السوفياتي من الإعلان عن اسم مشترك في التعداد القادم

بول غوبل (Paul Goble)

ترجمة: عادل بشقوي

17 أكتوبر/تشرين أول 2020

            ستاونتون، 15 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول — نجحت الحكومة الروسية في استخدام الأجهزة الأمنية للسيطرة على العديد من الجماعات الشركسية في التسعينيات من القرن الماضي وعرقلة الجهود في ذلك الوقت التي تجعلهم جميعًا يعلنون أن الشركس هو الاسم العرقي المشترك لهم، كما يقول عسكر سوخت (Asker Sokht). لكن الآن احتدم هذا الصراع مرة أخرى.

   فمن ناحية، الشركس مرتبطون أكثر من أي وقت مضى بالشتات الشركسي في الخارج ومع بعضهم البعض عبر وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي ويريدون أن يتم تعريفهم على أنهم أديغه (شراكسة) لأنهم يشعرون بهذه القواسم المشتركة بحماس أكبر من أي وقتٍ مضى، كما يقول رئيس منظمة أديغه خاسه في محافظة كراسنودار (ekhokavkaza.com/a/30895455.html). Read more →