War In Caucasus

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 →

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Автор: Мадина ХАКУАШЕВА, доктор филологических наук

Опубликовано: 11 декабря 2020

(по мотивам онлайн – дискуссии на Кавказском узле «Где границы свободы слова? Артемий Лебедев против черкесов…» 26 ноября 2020)

  

Начало инцидента с А. Лебедевым

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». Read more →

Karabakh Armenians are massively resettled to Abkhazia: a new separatist plan is maturing

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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 →

الثلاثاء 13 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2020

الشركس ومصيرهم — مقدمة موجزة ولكنها جوهرية

بول غوبل (Paul Goble)

ترجمة: عادل بشقوي
13 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2020

            ستاونتون، 12 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول — في العقود الأخيرة، ظهرت سلسلة من الدراسات حول التاريخ المعقد والوضع الحالي للشركس، سواء أولئك الذين بقوا في الوطن أو أولئك الذين يعيشون في الخارج لأن أسلافهم طردوا من الإمبراطورية الروسية منذ 150 عامًا.

            يلفت الشركس مزيدًا من الإنتباه حيث سمح الإنترنت لأولئك الموجودين في الوطن ومن هم في الخارج بدعم بعضهم البعض، وبما أن هذا النشاط المتزايد قد تحدى سيطرة موسكو على المنطقة من خلال تقويض الهندسة العرقية للمركز وعن طريق لفت الانتباه إلى الانتهاكات التي تركت بصماتها على الشركس وغيرهم. Read more →

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Circassians and Their Fate – a Brief but Fundamental Introduction

Paul Goble

Staunton, October 12 – In recent decades, there have appeared a series of studies of the complex history and present situation of the Circassians, both those who remain in the homeland and those who live abroad because their ancestors were expelled from the Russian Empire 150 years ago.

The Circassians are attracting ever more attention as the Internet has allowed those in the homeland and those abroad to reinforce one another and as this increasing activism has challenged Moscow’s control of a region by undermining the center’s ethnic engineering and by calling attention to the abuses it has visited on the Circassians and others. Read more →